Neel (2014), reported in Panel 3.12 in relation to the accuracy and dispersion of analysts’ forecasts, also finds that ‘on average mandatory adopters exhibit a positive IFRS effect on liquidity’ measured by a reduction in the number of trading days with zero returns and that this result is driven by improvements in comparability rather than by changes in accounting quality. He also finds that this result holds if the test sample is restricted to firms from countries with weak legal enforcement (based on a general ‘rule of law’ measure) and if firms from countries that Christensen et al (2013) identify as experiencing concurrent improvements in enforcement are excluded.
Platikanova and Nobes (2006), reported in Table 3.1 above in relation to value relevance, find a decrease in the bid-ask spread in 2005 for their sample of mandatory adopters.
Lang and Stice-Lawrence (2014), reported in Panel 3.28 above in relation to the textual effects of IFRS adoption, find that increases in market liquidity are associated with mandatory IFRS adoption, but it is unclear how much of the test sample comes from the EU.
The following two studies look at liquidity effects of specific accounting standards on limited numbers of firms, primarily with the intention of assessing the effects of mandatory IFRS adoption on information asymmetry