I examine how the verification of financial statements influences lenders’ debt pricing decisions. To do so, I obtain access to a large proprietary database of privately-held U.S. firms, an important business sector in which the information environment is opaque and financial statement audits...

Change of the economic and political system at the end of the last century led to the necessity of implementing reforms both in Georgia and the whole post-communist space in all fields of economy. It became necessary for proper management of economic activities of enterprises to establish the...