Purpose: This paper aims to examine various factors affecting the pricing of audit services and the selection of auditors in the Indian audit market. This paper also aims to investigate the impact of financial distress conditions on the audit pricing and auditor choice decisions of a firm,...

We consider the problem of optimally maintaining a periodically inspected system that deteriorates according to a discrete-time Markov process and has a limit on the number of repairs that can be performed before it must be replaced. After each inspection, a decision maker must decide whether to...

Modeling of activity duration has become an important aspect in characterizing activity and travel patterns. The standard approach for analyzing activity duration is to use hazard-based models to account for the duration dependence within an activity while estimating covariate effects and...