One of the purposes of European Regulation 1606/2002 for the adoption of IFRS in Europe is to
ensure a higher level of transparency in financial statements, which is necessary to build an efficient
and integrated capital market. IFRS are therefore expected to be more value-relevant than Italian
GAAP, which leads to the second research hypothesis:
H2: The value-relevance of IFRS for separate financial statements is significantly higher than Italian
GAAP, as evaluated by a higher adjusted R2
in the regression of share price on consolidated book