Japanese Banking Industry: A Study on Stock Market Reactions to Changes in the `Capital` Regulations

Mahito Okura () and Koji Kojima

The IUP Journal of Bank Management, 2007, vol. VI, issue 2, 6-18

Abstract: This paper aims to analyze how the introduction and/or the changes of capital regulation affect bank stock prices, and how the introduction and/or the changes of accounting regulation affect bank stock prices. In this study, an agency model was used to describe how an introduction of the capital ratio regulation affects a bank manager’s compensation contract, effort allocation, and a shareholder’s profits. The four main results obtained from the analysis are: (1) the events which strengthen the capital regulation increase expected stock prices; (2) the events which relax the capital regulation decrease expected stock prices; (3) the events which relax the accounting regulation do not change expected stock prices except for the introduction of “Accounting for Income Taxes”; and (4) stock market responded differently to announcements of regulation changes depending on bank’s attributes.

Date: 2007
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