Do you have to adopt to adopt? : evidence on IFRS spillovers in conglomerates

I study the impact of a parent firm's IFRS adoption on the accounting properties of their private non-IFRS-adopting European subsidiaries. In contrast to public European firms, private European firms are typically not required to adopt IFRS. I examine the private subsidiaries that do not adopt IFRS even though their parents do, and find spillover effects on the accounting properties of non-adopting subsidiaries as a result of parental adoption. I present evidence that private subsidiaries report lower earnings management after their parents are mandated to adopt, which I interpret as the subsidiary's earnings becoming more IFRS-like. There effects are stronger for subsidiaries whose parents have a larger ownership stake, and for subsidiaries that are located in a different country than their parent..

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Sloan School of Management

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2020

Author dc:creator

• Berfeld, Natalie.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Nemit Shroff and Rodrigo S. Verdi.

• Sloan School of Management.

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• MIT theses may be protected by copyright. Please reuse MIT thesis content according to the MIT Libraries Permissions Policy, which is available through the URL provided.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/126975

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/126975