This study examines the capital market effects of the SEC’s recent rule change to eliminate the 20-F reconciliation
requirement for U.S. cross-listed firms following IFRS. Specifically, we investigate the effects of the elimination on stock
market liquidity and the probability of informed trading (PIN). We find no evidence that IFRS-reporting firms experience a
significant change in market liquidity (as measured by zero returns, price impact, bid-ask spread, and trading costs) and
PIN in the year after the elimination, relative to a control group of cross-listed firms that do not use IFRS. We explore other
potential consequences of eliminating the 20-F reconciliation and find no evidence that the elimination has a significant
impact on cost of equity, analysts’ forecast error, bias and dispersion, institutional ownership, and stock price efficiency
and synchronicity.