Our sample is based on the list of jurisdictions on the IASB’s website and covers 128 countries
around the world as of 2013. The IASB’s jurisdiction profiles provide a detailed summary of each
jurisdiction’s adoption status of IFRS for SMEs, as well as other accounting regulation issues
(e.g. adoption of full IFRS; regulation of local GAAP). We apply logit and, in robustness tests,
multi-period logit regression models to assess the likelihood of adoption of IFRS for SMEs.
We use theories of accounting regulation to develop our hypotheses. In line with recent accounting
literature (Bushman and Landsman 2010, Kothari et al. 2010, Leuz 2010), we argue that these
theories provide a helpful framework to understand why jurisdictions regulate GAAP and how
regulators respond to market forces that affect the demand for and the supply of accounting
information.