We use the SEC’s 2007 decision that eliminates the reconciliation requirement for foreign listed private issuers (FPIs) reporting under IFRS as a natural experiment to examine whether IFRS and US GAAP produce accounting information of comparable quality. We conduct statistical analyses using a...

This paper uses laboratory mechanism design in an investment environment to examine the impact of empowering investors with the right to veto the investee's profit distribution decision on the level of trust and trustworthiness. One of the key findings is that the empowerment of investors...

We use a laboratory-controlled environment to provide experimental evidence on the potential intended and unintended consequences of the mandatory replacement of the Incurred Credit Loss Model (ICL) of IAS 39 by the Expected Credit Loss Model (ECL) of IFRS 9. We focus on the simplified version...

Our objective is to test-bed the new Expected Credit Loss (ECL) and Current Expected Credit Loss (CECL) models for bank credit loss accounting to identify the potential consequences of their implementation. In particular, whether and how ECL and CECL approaches could lead to divergence in credit...