Petya Platikanova and Jordi Perramon, ‘Economic consequences of the first-time IFRS introduction in Europe’, look at the effects on market liquidity of mandatory IFRS adoption by 966 EU firms from four countries: France, Germany, Sweden and the UK. The period covered for the liquidity tests is one year before and one year after adoption. The paper also looks at prior year restatements given as comparatives in the first year of IFRS adoption.
The authors find increases in liquidity for the French and German firms, but report mixed findings for the Swedish and UK firms.