The authors find that ‘the likelihood of a firm accessing the bond market increases by 8.4% for mandatory IFRS adopters, relative to non-adopters, after the mandate’ and that ‘the cost of bonds to mandatory IFRS issuers decreases by 36.6 basis points in the post-IFRS period, relative to a benchmark sample of non-adopters’. No comparable effects are found for access to loans or for loan rates.