The Value Relevance of Risk Disclosure: An Analysis of the Banking Sector

Begoña Giner, Alessandra Allini and Annamaria Zampella

Accounting in Europe, 2020, vol. 17, issue 2, 129-157

Abstract: The aim of this study is to test whether financial risk disclosures required by IFRS 7 and Pillar 3 are value relevant for investors to support them in their investment decisions. The sample in the study consists of banks listed on the London, Paris, Frankfurt, Madrid, and Milan Stock Exchanges over an 8-year period, from 2007 to 2014. Based on the aforementioned standards, we built financial risk disclosure indexes and distinguished different risk categories, qualitative and quantitative, as well as credit, liquidity, and market risk. Our analyses confirm that there is a positive association between bank value and several categories of established risk disclosures. Furthermore, it suggests that disclosure adds value to more traditional risk value measures. Besides, our results suggest that investors pay attention to the strength of the bank authority when using risk disclosures.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/17449480.2020.1730921

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