This paper explores the effects of public information (e.g., accounting earnings) in a competitive lending setting where the borrower can engage in risk shifting. If a privately informed "inside" creditor bids against outsider creditors, public information levels the playing field with...

Building on an auction model, we examine the economic consequences of audit retendering, under which the incumbent auditor in auction possesses both an information advantage and knowledge advantage over outside auditors. Audit retendering allows the firm to retain the incumbent auditor with...

We examine the corporate governance roles of information quality and the takeover market with asymmetric information regarding the value of the target firm. Increasing information quality improves the takeover efficiency, however, a highly efficient takeover market also discourages the manager...