We study the relation between the centralization of regulated financial information, information asymmetry, and capital market liquidity. Specifically, we exploit the staggered implementation of digital storage and access facilities (called Officially Appointed Mechanisms, or OAMs) for regulated...

We examine the link between enhanced accounting comparability and the valuation performance of pricing multiples. Using the warranted multiple method proposed by Bhojraj and Lee (2002, Journal of Accounting Research), we demonstrate how enhanced accounting comparability leads to better...

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to empirically test whether wealthy economies have better accounting quality (AQ) compared to their “poor” counterparts. Design/methodology/approach: To test the formulated hypothesis, this article examines accounting and market data of 40 countries'...

We examine the link between enhanced accounting comparability and the valuation performance of pricing multiples. Using the warranted multiple method proposed by Bhojraj and Lee (2002), we demonstrate how enhanced accounting comparability leads to better peer-based valuation performance....

We are the first to examine the market reaction to 13 announcement dates related to IFRS 9 for over 5,400 European listed firms. We find an overall positive reaction to the introduction of IFRS 9. The regulation is particularly beneficial to shareholders of firms in countries with weaker rule of...

Kothari, Lewellen and Warner (2006) document that in the U.S. market aggregate earnings changes are negatively related to contemporaneous market returns. This is puzzling given the well-documented evidence that firm-level earnings changes are positively related to stock returns. In this study we...

This study examines the role of market efficiency on international differences in the usefulness of the implied cost of capital (ICC) to measure expected stock returns. The analysis exploits cross-country differences in market efficiency around the world using a variety of empirical measures of...

We examine the relation between disclosure quality and information asymmetry among market participants following an exogenous shock to macroeconomic risk. In 2015 the Swiss National Bank abruptly announced that it would abandon the longstanding minimum euro-Swiss franc exchange rate. We find...

We examine how financial reporting quality affects the degree of noise in stock returns using the setting of Chinese A-B twin shares, which are shares for the same firm, traded on the same exchange but with separate inventor clienteles (i.e., mainly domestic vs. foreign). We measure return noise...

We find evidence that the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) improves corporate disclosure. Specifically, we document that forecast errors of the predicted earnings issued during the Initial Public Offering (IPO) have significantly reduced in Australia following the...