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.
5.3.1. Tax considerations
In additional analyses, we include two variables in our regression analysis as proxies for tax
considerations: