We examine the effects of mandating the provision of fair value information for long-lived tangible assets on firms' information asymmetry. Specifically, we investigate whether European real estate firms' compulsory adoption of International Accounting Standard 40 (IAS 40; Investment Property),...

Prior research documents that conditional conservatism, measured as the asymmetric timeliness of earnings reflecting bad vs. good news, varies with cross-country differences in institutional regimes. In this paper, we examine the determinants of conditional conservatism and related earnings...

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...

<title>Abstract</title> Meek and Thomas (2004) call for research on the continued relevance of 'rediscovered' dichotomous accounting classifications. We provide such evidence by examining how developments surrounding the 'IAS Regulation' (1606/2002) influenced international differences in accounting systems in...

Die Auseinandersetzung mit Pensionsverpflichtungen gehört zu den Kontrollaufgaben des Aufsichtsrates, und bei der Ausgestaltung der betrieblichen Altersvorsorge besitzt der Betriebsrat ein gesetzliches Mitbestimmungsrecht. Als Informationsgrundlage steht Aufsichts- und Betriebsräten für die...

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