This paper discusses empirical evidence on the economic consequences of mandatory adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in the European Union (EU) and provides suggestions on how future research can add to our understanding of these effects. Based on the explicitly...

The level of regulation of disclosure and corporate governance on the national and supranational level has increased substantially in the last decade. With that in mind, and in the light of the demand for evidence-based financial reporting and disclosure regulation (Buijink, 2006; Gassen and...

Diese Dissertation untersucht die Informationsverbreitungs- und -produktionsfunktion der Medien. Die Finanzpresse ist ein wichtiger Informationsintermediär, welcher potentiell die größte und diverseste Zielgruppe unter den Investoren und anderen Stakeholdern erreicht. Folglich hat die Presse...

We examine whether a disclosure mandate for greenhouse gas emissions creates stakeholder pressure for firms to subsequently reduce their emissions. For UK-incorporated listed firms such a mandate was adopted in 2013. Using a difference-in-differences design, we find that firms affected by the...