This study examines the impact of mandatory IFRS adoption on IPO underpricing and the relative amount of IPO capital raised in foreign markets. Using a difference-in-differences design, we find a decrease in IPO underpricing and an increase in the relative proceeds from foreign markets following...

We examine whether adoptions of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) enhance capital investment efficiency as measured by investment-cash flow sensitivity and value-enhancing risk taking for a comprehensive sample comprised of 10,340 mandatory and voluntary IFRS adoptions across 26...

Theoretically, dual-class ownership can promote innovation by increasing managerial flexibility and tolerance to failure. Yet, it can also inhibit it by promoting managerial entrenchment and misbehavior. Using hand-collected firm-level international data, we document an overall negative impact...

We use the framework developed in Richardson et al. (2004) to identify country, firm and analyst characteristics that we expect to be associated with the prevalence of the analyst walk-down forecast pattern. Based on a large sample of 50,649 analysts covering 33,645 firms from 46 countries...

This study investigates how accounting harmonization affects one particular group of financial statement users - financial analysts. We find that mandatory IFRS adoption attracts foreign analysts, particularly those from countries that are simultaneously adopting IFRS along with the covered...