We study the ownership structure of joint-stock firms for the period of 1869 to 1945 based on a unique hand-collected data set. The data covers a selection of 785 general meetings of 276 firms, including details of more than 10,000 investors. We show that after the hyperinflation of 1923, when...

This paper compares the value relevance of the net income and the total comprehensive income reported under IFRSs. The total comprehensive income represents a key measure of the overall company performance, and it is extremely topical after the revision of the IAS 1. The paper aims at verifying...