Numan, Wieteke; Willekens, Marleen - In: Journal of Accounting and Economics 53 (2012) 1, pp. 450-465
This study empirically examines the effects of competition through differentiation on audit pricing. Based on prior economic theory on differentiated-product markets (e.g., Hotelling, 1929; Tirole, 1988), we hypothesize that audit fees are affected by an auditor's relative location in a market...