Accounting Standards Harmonization and Financial Integration

We empirically examine whether adopting a uniform set of accounting standards mitigates information frictions in financial markets and facilitates market integration. Using a difference-in-difference design, we find that after the mandatory adoption of IFRS local stock returns incorporate more globa...

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Main Authors: Dhaliwal, D. (Author), He, W. (Author), Li, Y. (Author), Pereira, R. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2019
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