Table 1.
Treatment of China, the US, and IASB policies on subsequent measurement of goodwill.
Table 2.
Variable definitions.
Table 3.
Summary statistics for main variables.
Table 4.
Regression results of M&A motivation.
Table 5.
Regression results of industry competitiveness.
Table 6.
The effect of goodwill impairment policy across firms.
Table 7.
The Effect of goodwill impairment policy across industries.
Table 8.
Test of time trend effect.
Fig 1.
The trend of M&A frequency for subsamples partitioned by light-asset characteristic.
Fig 2.
The trend of M&A frequency for subsamples partitioned by P/E ratio.
Table 9.
Alternative measures of industrial competitiveness.