In this paper, we investigate the economic consequences of using English as an external reporting language for firms from non- English speaking countries. We use a difference-indifferences technique to estimate the effect of language. We use a sample of 166 firms that start publishing an annual...

Author's abstract. We investigate the economic consequences of increasing financial report visibility, measured by the use of english as a reporting language for firms from non-English-speaking countries. We sample 113 firms that started publishing their annual report in English (in addition to...

This study investigates the economic consequences of non-English-speaking companies adopting English as an external reporting language. We examine a sample of European companies that initiate the voluntary issuance of an annual report in English in addition to the local language annual report....

Nous examinons les conséquences économiques de l'utilisation de l'anglais dans le rapport annuel de sociétés de pays non-anglophones. Nous utilisons un échantillon de 113 sociétés qui commencent à publier un rapport annuel en anglais en plus d'un rapport annuel dans leur langue...

We investigate the role of analyst following as a monitoring device reducing earnings management. In a large international sample, we fi nd that the more transparent the country, the stronger the reduction in earnings management activity associated with analyst following. More transparent...