Using a runs test, we find that these two loan loss specific timeliness measures are quite stable through time. We find that over 56% and 66% of banks have a z-statistic less than À1.68, for each measure respectively, suggesting that these measures are stable over time for the majority of banks provisioning. We modify their approach to suit our investigation of bank-quarter lending. We first estimate the following cross-sectional model. Similar to Khan and Watts (2009), we remove bank-quarters with price per share less than $1 or negative book value of equity26