“…The country source of company data spans the globe. Numerous researchers have examined determinants of the P/E including: Pakistan (Afza & Tahir, 2012;Akhtar & Rashid, 2015); Turkey (Arslan, Iltas & Kayhan, 2017;Sezgin, 2010); Japan (Constand, Freitas & Sullivan, 1991;Marozzi & Cozzucoli, 2016); Philippines (Divanbeygi & Tehrani, 2013); Bangladesh (Dutta, Saha, & Das, 2018); Iran (Faezinia, Ohadi & Janani, 2012); Jordan (Fesokh & Haddad, 2019); G7 countries (Rahman & Shamsuddin, 2019); Indonesia (Idrus, Ali & Jusni, 2015); Nigeria (Ikoku, Hosseini & Okany, 2010); Norway (Itemgenova & Sikveland, 2020); India (Kumar& Warne, 2009); Poland (Kurach & Slonski, 2015); Global collection of Austria, Denmark, Japan, Mexico, Netherland, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and the UK (Nikbakht & Polat, 1998); China (Marozzi & Cozzucoli, 2016); Emerging Equities Markets (Ramcharran, 2002): and the US (Basu (1977), Beaver & Morse (1978), Bodhanwal (2014), Goodell & Bodey (2012), Houmes & Chira (2015), Jordan, Clark & Donald (2009), Penman (1966). The change to IFRS and its impact on financial ratios affecting the P/E ratio has been studied by Cengiz (2014), Lantto & Sahlstrom (2009), and Lueg, Punda & Burkert (2014).…”