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Lenders’ Response to Peer and Customer Restatements

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  • Rebecca Files
  • Umit G. Gurun

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We investigate whether restatements announced by economically related firms influence the contract terms a borrower receives from lenders. A restatement by a major customer firm increases the loan spread of a borrower by 11 basis points, on average. The contagion effects of customer restatements are higher (45 basis points) when a borrower's switching costs are high. Restatements by peer firms in the same industry also increase a borrower's loan spread, and this increase occurs regardless of restatement severity. Moreover, the sensitivity of loan spread to peer restatements is significantly greater when the restating peer firms are also in the bank's lending portfolio, suggesting that a lender's personal experience with restatements in an industry makes it more attuned to the potential implications of these restatements for the borrowing firm. Finally, our results suggest that lenders utilize information from peer restatements to anticipate future restatements by the borrowing firm. Les auteurs se demandent si les retraitements des états financiers annoncés par des sociétés ayant un lien économique avec une société emprunteuse influent sur les conditions contractuelles que cette dernière obtient des prêteurs. Un retraitement des états financiers d'une importante société cliente accroît le différentiel de taux d'une société emprunteuse de 11 points de base, en moyenne. Les effets de contagion des retraitements des états financiers de sociétés clientes sont plus importants (45 points de base) lorsque les coûts d'un changement de client sont élevés pour la société emprunteuse. Les retraitements des états financiers de sociétés comparables exerçant leurs activités dans le même secteur entraînent également une hausse du différentiel de taux d'une société emprunteuse, et cela peu importe la gravité des problèmes que visent à corriger les retraitements. De plus, la sensibilité du différentiel de taux aux retraitements des états financiers de sociétés comparables est beaucoup plus grande lorsque les sociétés comparables procédant à ces retraitements figurent aussi dans le portefeuille de prêts de la banque, ce qui laisse croire que l'expérience du prêteur en matière de retraitements dans un secteur d'activité accroît l'attention qu'il porte aux conséquences potentielles de ces retraitements pour la société emprunteuse. Enfin, les résultats de l’étude semblent indiquer que les prêteurs utilisent l'information relative aux retraitements des états financiers des sociétés comparables pour anticiper les retraitements ultérieurs des états financiers de la société emprunteuse.

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  • Rebecca Files & Umit G. Gurun, 2018. "Lenders’ Response to Peer and Customer Restatements," Contemporary Accounting Research, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 35(1), pages 464-493, March.
  • Handle: RePEc:wly:coacre:v:35:y:2018:i:1:p:464-493
    DOI: 10.1111/1911-3846.12374
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