As the first English publication focusing on Japanese accounting research, we believe that one of the long-term goals for this journal is to help build an indigenous research culture that attracts an international audience. In this paper, we provide some thoughts on 1) identifying Japanese...

This dissertation investigates whether harmonization of accounting standards enhances the comparability of financial information across countries. In the first chapter, I statistically define and link comparability to firm value in a theoretical framework. Based on a two-firm, sequential...

When countries shift from a fixed to a floating currency regime, the change in currency risk for a US MNC is larger for currencies tied to the dollar during the fixed regime than for non-dollar-linked currencies. Our analysis exploits this difference in changes in currency risk around regime...