Ferguson, Andrew C.; Francis, Jere R.; Stokes, Donald J. - In: Accounting and Finance 46 (2006) 1, pp. 97-106
Ferguson "et al." (2003) report that audit industry fee premia primarily reside with joint national and city-specific industry leadership as opposed to merely firm-wide (national) industry expertise, suggesting auditor choice among the Big 5 is best conceptualized on joint industry...