IFRS adoption and foreign direct investment in Sub-Saharan African countries: Does the levels of Adoption Matter?
Journal: Cogent Business & Management
Year: 2023

This study makes an effort to determine how international financial reporting standards (IFRS) adoption levels affect net FDI inflows to sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries using a panel data spans from 2005 to 2020. The results of the two-step system’s generalized methods of moments (GMM) estimation reveal that while both partial and full adoption is found to be insignificant, the sign is negative for full IFRS adoption. However, a statistically significant and positive effect of the interactio