Authors:

  • Josh Lerner

Excerpt

Bridging the Gap? Government Subsidized Lending and Access to Capital. Josh Lerner, March 2013, Paper. "For the past two decades, fair value accounting—the practice of measuring assets and liabilities at estimates of their current value—has been on the ascent. This marks a major departure from the centuries-old tradition of keeping books at historical cost. It also has implications across the world of business, because the accounting basis—whether fair value or historical cost—affects investment choices and management decisions, with consequences for aggregate economic activity..."  Link