This dissertation comprises three distinct chapters. The third chapter examines the capital market effects of standardized voluntary disclosure of industry-specific information in an ex-ante strong information environment, which is the European real estate sector. We compute three proxies...

We examine determinants and consequences of a turn away from IFRS to local GAAP, thereby exploiting a unique feature of the Swiss setting in which listed firms are allowed to switch from IFRS to Swiss GAAP, all else being equal. We posit that net benefits of IFRS are less for small firms with...