Audit Firm Mergers and Low Balling

Motivation: This paper investigates whether audit firm mergers affect audit fee discounts in the initial year. The numerous mergers of audit firms in China’s capital market provide a quasi-natural experiment to investigate this issue. Premise: The merger of audit firms can increase the firm siz...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: W.J, Liu, Cao, June
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2023
Online Access:https://www.stjohns.edu/academics/schools/peter-j-tobin-college-business/departments-centers-and-faculty-research/review-business
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/90251