Global Financial Reporting analyses and explains the revolution that is currently occuring with respect to the accounts of major multinational companies, as national laws and standards are supplanted by global rules. Beginning with an analysis of the financial reporting practices of five major...

This study empirically examines the development of the high-yield segment of the corporate bond market in the United States, as a pioneer country, and the United Kingdom and the euro area, as later adopting countries. Estimated diffusion models show for the United States a significant pioneer...