Lobo, Gerald; Paugam, Luc; Zhang, Dana; Casta, … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013
composition on overall measures of unconditional and conditional conservatism, as well as on a specific measure of conditional … conservatism, i.e., impairment loss. We use game theory to demonstrate that pairs of Big 4 auditors facing similar incentives are … likely to have lower auditor independence, leading to lower conservatism. Conversely, pairs of a Big 4 and a Small auditor …