This Paper, which extends earlier work by Filardo and Guinigundo (2008) and Nelson (2008), reports on a survey conducted in 2007 on the communication practices of 32 members of the Central Bank Governance Network. The questionnaire sent to Network members was divided into two main parts. The...

We empirically examine the effect of IFRS adoption on the information quality of financial reporting in low investor protection countries. We examine the capital markets of France, Switzerland and Sweden, three Western European civil law countries, which are regarded as low investor protection,...

We investigate the informational role of trading volume and quote changes in VIX options with regard to future movements in the index, based upon a high-frequency framework. Our results reveal that whilst volume imbalances convey no significant predictive information, quote changes in VIX...

This paper examines whether and how differences in investors' information environment are related to cross-country differences in the market risk premium volatility. We use the vector-autoregressive and implied cost of capital methods to extract time variation in risk premiums for 41 developed...

This study documents the characteristics and information value of corporate disclosures of forward-looking information in different equity markets. It focuses on the extent to which national differences in legal and regulatory environments, and systems of corporate governance and finance...

We examine the impact of global IFRS adoption on cross-border equity investments by individual investors. Our proxy for cross-border equity investments is trading volume in the Open Market at Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The Open Market is a segment designed for German individual investors to trade...

Ein wesentliches Ziel der externen Rechnungslegung besteht in der Vermittlung entscheidungsrelevanter Informationen. Um dieses Ziel zu erreichen, befinden sich die länderspezifischen Rechnungslegungsregelsysteme in einer steten Evolution. Während bisher die Weiterentwicklung der...