The research objective of this paper is to investigate when the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) is beneficial to capital market participants. In particular, I specify the conditions in which IFRS is superior to domestic accounting standards from cost of capital and...

Using stock price data drawn from the 1990s in Japan, this paper empirically shows that bank risk is negatively associated with discretionary accruals, indicating that investors misinterpreted high reported earnings as favorable information about bank financial health. We also show that the...