We study the impacts of regime changes and related rule implementations on IPOs’ initial return for China’s entrepreneurial boards. We find that the most efficient regulation regime in China’s IPO pricing has four characteristics: 1) registration system, 2) no hard return caps and no...

This paper analyzes the information quality of the current fair value standard in US-GAAP and IFRS in terms of value relevance and faithful representation. The current standard favors reliable market-based inputs over sometimes more relevant entity-specific inputs as it requires preparers to use...