We investigate how the mandatory adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) by publicly listed firms in the European Union affects peer private firms. We find that private firms’ capital investment decreases significantly after the IFRS mandate, relative to public firms....

We examine how information disclosures from private firms affect analysts’ public firm earnings forecasts. On one hand, private firm disclosures allow analysts to better understand industry-wide business conditions, enabling them to forecast the peer public firm earnings more accurately. On...