listed firms did not find a statistically significant association between legal origin and adoption of
full IFRS (Hope et al. 2006, Johnson 2011), we find statistically significant results, suggesting
that regulatory forces are more prevalent in the private firm setting. We also calculate the variance
inflation factors (VIFs) to address the issue of multicollinearity. All VIFs for our main independent
variables are lower than 3.0, indicating that collinearity between the independent variables
does not distort our regression results. The pseudo R2 of Model 2 in Table 6 including control
variables is 0.497.
5.3. Additional analyses
In this section, we examine tax considerations as potential determinants of countries’ adoption of
IFRS for SMEs. Further, while we use in our main regression analyses an aggregated measure for
governance quality, we replace this variable by using single measures as alternative proxies for
governance quality. We also test whether alternative explanations (e.g. social legitimisation pressures)
drive our results. Thus, contrary to prior studies at country level (Hope et al. 2006, Zeghal
and Mhedhbi 2006, Judge et al. 2010), our study uses a more extensive set of explanatory variables
and hence, we are able to reduce concerns about potential omitted variable problems as one
source of endogeneity bias.