We test whether mandatory IFRS adoption affects firm-level ‘crash risk,' defined as the frequency of extreme negative stock returns. We separately analyze non-financial firms and financial firms because IFRS is likely to affect their crash risk differently. We find that IFRS adoption decreases...

We examine the impact of mandatory IFRS adoption on firm-level “crash risk,” defined as the frequency of extreme negative stock returns. An important feature of our study is that we separately analyze industrial firms and firms in finance-related industries. This is important because IFRS...