The authors use event-study methods to examine security returns for the twenty-five largest U.S. bank holding companies surrounding two events: (1) Citicorp's $3 billion loan-loss-reserve decision of May 19, 1987 and (2) subsequent follow-the-leader behavior by other major banking companies. Although the market anticipated rational follow-the-leader behavior and rewarded it, the events were only partially anticipated. The authors interpret the loan-loss-reserve decisions as foreshadowing the write-down of LDC loans. Such bookkeeping entries affect market prices because they signal economic value-enhancing corporate and strategic restructurings. Copyright 1990 by Ohio State University Press.
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