• openAccess   Cost and revenue efficiency in Spanish banking: What distributions show 

      Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili; García-Alcober, Mª Pilar; Illueca, Manuel Asociación Española de Contabilidad y Administración de Empresas, AECA (2016)
      The literature analysing the efficiency of financial institutions has evolved rapidly over the last 20 years. Most research has focused on the input side, analysing either cost, input technical efficiency or input allocative ...
    • closedAccess   Costs, revenues and performance in Spanish banking:a comparative analysis of pre- and early crisis years 

      Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili; Garcia-Alcober, Maria P.; Illueca, Manuel Taylor and Francis Group (2016-07-14)
      The literature analysing the efficiency of financial institutions has evolved rapidly over the last 20 years. Most research has focused on the input side, analysing either cost, input technical efficiency or input allocative ...
    • closedAccess   Countercyclical prudential buffers and bank risk-taking 

      Illueca, Manuel; Norden, Lars; Pacelli, Joseph; Udell, Gregory F. Elsevier (2022-01-31)
      We investigate the effects of countercyclical prudential buffers on bank risk-taking. We exploit the introduction of dynamic loan loss provisioning in Spain, mandating that banks use historical average loss rates in their ...
    • openAccess   Credit Quality and Substitution in SME Finance 

      Norden, Lars; Van Kampen, Stefan; Illueca, Manuel World Scientific Publishing (2021-09-02)
      We investigate whether and how SMEs’ credit quality influences their substitution of bank credit for trade credit. Using data from the five largest European countries, we find that substitution of bank credit for trade ...
    • openAccess   External investigations and disciplinary sanctions against auditors: the impact on audit quality 

      De Fuentes Barberá, Cristina; Illueca, Manuel; Pucheta-Martínez, María Consuelo Springer (2015-08)
      In this paper, we provide empirical evidence for the impact of disciplinary sanctions imposed on Spanish auditing firms and their engagement partners. The disciplinary sanctions resulted from external investigations, which ...
    • closedAccess   Liberalization and Risk-Taking: Evidence from Government-Controlled Banks 

      Illueca, Manuel; Norden, Lars; Udell, Gregory F. Oxford University Press (2014-07)
      We study the effects of the interplay between deregulation and governance on risk-taking in the financial industry. We consider the removal of regulatory geographic constraints for savings banks in Spain, the cajas, which ...
    • closedAccess   Profit efficiency and earnings quality: Evidence from the Spanish banking industry 

      Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili; García-Alcober, Mª Pilar; Illueca, Manuel Springer (2019-05)
      The analysis of efficiency and productivity in banking has received a great deal of attention for almost three decades now.However, most of the existing literature to date has not explicitly accounted for risk when measuring ...
    • openAccess   Regulation, Supervision and Accounting Conservatism: The Interactionof the Three Pillars of Basel II on the Quality of Reported Earnings inWorldwide Banks 

      DIAZ SANCHEZ, INMACULADA; martinez-conesa, isabel; Illueca, Manuel Asociación Española de Profesores Universitarios de Contabilidad, ASEPUC (2023)
      Accounting conservatism is a quality of earnings positively associated with the strength of banking regu- lation and supervision and also high market discipline, but there still remains the unresolved question of the way ...
    • openAccess   Risk-taking behavior, earnings quality, and bank performance: A profit frontier approach 

      García-Alcober, Mª Pilar; Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili; Illueca, Manuel Elsevier (2019)
      After the financial crisis of 2007–2008, some bank performance dimensions have been the subject of debate, two of which are bank efficiency, and bank risk-taking behavior. The literature on bank efficiency and productivity ...