This paper investigates whether there is market reaction to and value-relevance of information contained in the mandatory transitional documents required by IFRS 1 (2005). These documents detail the reconciliation adjustments necessary to a firm's previously reported UK GAAP accounts to achieve...

This study examines whether application of IFRS by non-US firms results in accounting amounts comparable to those resulting from application of US GAAP by US firms. IFRS firms have greater accounting system and value relevance comparability with US firms when IFRS firms apply IFRS than when they...

Non-financial performance measures, such as Environmental, Social, and Governance (“ESG”) measures, are potentially leading indicators of firms' financial performance. I draw on the prior academic literature and the concept of ESG materiality to develop new corporate governance and ESG...

Closed-end country funds are interesting in that they have two sets of prices for the same underlying assets – the net asset value (NAV) of the fund holdings as measured using the underlying firms' stock prices in their home markets and the fund price at which the fund trades on a U.S. stock...

This article provides an insightful overview of the challenges encountered by the insurance industry when applying the requirements of IFRS 17 to reinsurance contracts. Through the metaphor "Fitting a Square Peg in a Round Hole," the author effectively captures the complexities and difficulties...

We investigate whether banks use loan loss provisions to smooth income and whether this behaviour is influenced by foreign bank presence, ownership and institutional quality differences across African countries. We examine 370 banks from 21 African countries from 2002 to 2021. We find evidence...

Are equity anomalies a product of p-hacking in the asset pricing literature? To shed new light on this question, we perform a true out-of-sample study of 30 well-known anomalies in the cross-section of returns. We replicate these anomalies in a novel hand-collected dataset of firms listed on the...

A technique from stochastic portfolio theory [Fernholz, 1998] is applied to analyse equity returns of Small, Mid and Large cap portfolios in an emerging market through periods of growth and regional crises, up to the onset of the global financial crisis. In particular, we factorize portfolios in...

New indices for developed and emerging markets are analyzed for stocks, bonds and bills over the past 300 years. Indices for commodity markets covering 1000 years and indices for real estate covering over 100 years are also provided. Bull and bear markets for fixed income are studied going back...

New indices are provided for ten emerging markets. Using data from companies listed in London and New York in the 1800s and 1900s, new stock market indices are produced and discussed providing information on companies in Turkey, Egypt, Cuba, China, Singapore, South Africa, Argentina, Brazil,...