This article emphasizes the significance of researching the cross effect of using jointly external audit quality and ownership structure over managerial discretion in a largely unexplored, non-Western and emerging context. The analysis is based on a sample of 61 Tunisian firms listed and...

This study examines the impact of the interactions of audit litigation and ownership structure on audit quality by Big 4 and non-Big 4 audit firms in Oman. This study uses modified audit opinion as proxies for audit quality, binary variable for audit litigation and percentage of shares owned by...

We study whether managerial ownership and analyst coverage relate to audit fee. To the extent that these corporate governance factors relate to auditor assessment of the firm's agency costs and hence various risks the auditor must consider in the development of an audit program, they will affect...

We investigate the association between public versus private ownership and future long-term changes in profitability. Managers have long debated the implications of public and private corporate ownership; however, little empirical research has provided insight into the issue. We find robust...

We investigate the association between audit quality and some unique attributes of the engagement audit partners in the Turkish audit market during the period 2008-2014. We specifically examine the impact of the engagement partners' ownership stakes in their audit firms, their busyness and...

This paper investigates whether foreign ownership affects audit fees by analyzing share-holdings of listed firms from Western European countries. The results show that foreign ownership is an important factor that drives the demand for audit services. However, the willingness to pay higher audit...

This paper investigates empirically the effect of ownership concentration on corporate disclosure choice in Bangladesh. In an environment of weak enforceability of laws, corporate culture in Bangladesh is characterized by family control and concentrated ownership. Controlling shareholders...

We examine the relation between passive ownership and financial reporting quality measured by Beneish's (1999) earnings' manipulation score (M-score). We find that passive ownership is negatively related to M-score and to the likelihood of being designated as a “manipulator” firm. However,...

This paper investigates the monitoring effect of institutional investors on portfolio firms' audit quality. We identify an exogenous discontinuity in institutional ownership around the Russell index threshold to overcome the endogeniety concerns. We find that an exogenous increase in a firm's...