The Value Relevance of Financial Institutions’ Fair Value Disclosures: A Study in the Difficulty of Linking Unrealized Gains and Losses to Equity Values

Haim A. Mozes

Abacus, 2002, vol. 38, issue 1, 1-15

Abstract: This article provides a residual‐income valuation framework for assessing whether fair value disclosures required by SFAS 119, Disclosures About Derivative Financial Instruments and Fair Values of Financial Instruments, are value‐relevant. The primary theoretical and empirical result is that when using a residual‐income valuation model, the estimated relation between variables measuring fair value‐book value differences for financial instruments and security prices may be contrary to what one would have expected. Specifically, the greater the firm’s return on invested capital and growth rate relative to its cost of capital, the more negative the estimated relation between fair value‐book value differences for financial instruments and security prices. A generalization of this result is that tests linking equity values to various types of unrecognized gains and losses are, in many cases, unlikely to generate the hypothesized positive relation between equity values and the unrecognized gains and losses.

Date: 2002
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