Public service innovation, defined as the adoption of new technology and methods of service delivery, is at the heart of public management research. Scholars have long studied public and private sector innovation as distinctive phenomena, arguing that private sector innovation aims to increase...

We develop a measure to capture an audit firm's competitive position in a local audit market based on the transaction costs of changing audit firms included in DeAngelo's (1981) multi-period audit pricing model. Our competition measure reflects the size difference between the largest audit firm...

This paper uses a model extended from DeAngelo (1981) to examine audit market and audit pricing. When auditors have differential operational efficiencies, the audit market becomes delicate. On one hand, auditees would like to reduce audit fees by to purchasing audit services from the most...