Determining factors that affect risk disclosure level in Egyptian banks
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DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.21511/bbs.14(1).2019.14
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This study aims to measure the risk disclosure level in Egyptian banks and to investigate its determinants. The sample consisted of 28 banks during the period from 2010 to 2017. An unweighted risk disclosure index including six categories was used: credit risk, market risk, liquidity risk, capital structure and adequacy risk, operational risk, and other non-financial risks. Also, a content analysis approach was used to measure the actual level of risk disclosure. The findings demonstrated that there was an average level of total risk disclosure of all sample banks. The results showed that banks with a higher percentage of independent board membership, large board size, large audit committee size, duality, higher institutional ownership, and banks audited by one of big four audit firms were more motivated to increase risk disclosure. Also, the results showed that leverage, bad news, and bank social responsibility have a negative relationship with the level of risk disclosure. Overall, the results indicated that leverage, board size, audit committee size, auditor types, independence, duality, institutional ownership, bank social responsibility, and bad news are the main factors affecting the level of risk disclosure in Egyptian banks. The findings of this paper have a number of important implications. The risk disclosure in the banking sector is important for stakeholders such as investors and depositors. Also, risk disclosure index helps the regulatory bodies to evaluate the risk disclosure practice in Egyptian banks. This paper contributes to analyzing factors affecting banks managers’ decision to disclose risk information in emerging countries such as Egypt.
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JEL Classification (Paper profile tab)M40, G21, G34
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References42
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- Table 1. Risk disclosure index
- Table 2. Measurement of variables
- Table 3. Descriptive statistics
- Table 4. Descriptive analysis of the characteristics of risk disclosure in Egyptian banks
- Table 5. Types of the risk disclosure
- Table 6. Pearson correlation matrix
- Table 7. Multiple regression
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