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Financial Statements not Required

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  • Minnis, Michael
  • Sutherland, Andrew
  • Vetter, Felix

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Using a dataset covering 3 million commercial borrower financial statements, we document a substantial, nearly monotonic decline in banks’ use of attested financial statements (AFS) in lending over the past two decades. Two market forces help explain this trend. First, technological advances provide lenders with access to a growing array of borrower information sources that can substitute for AFS. Second, banks are increasingly competing with nonbank lenders that rely less on AFS in screening and monitoring. Our results illustrate a novel implication of positive accounting theory: technology adoption and changes in credit market structure can render AFS less efficient for screening and monitoring, and reduce lenders’ demand for them.

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  • Minnis, Michael & Sutherland, Andrew & Vetter, Felix, 2023. "Financial Statements not Required," MPRA Paper 117472, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    • Handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:117472
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    Keywords

    banks; lending standards; financial statements; auditing; SME lending; nonbank lending; fintech;
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    JEL classification:

    • M40 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Accounting - - - General
    • M41 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Accounting - - - Accounting
    • M42 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Accounting - - - Auditing

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