Building on Romano's analysis of the U.S. securities regulatory regime, we model competition between professional auditing associations. We show that such competition is an effective substitute for government regulation, providing an efficient means for auditors to signal their service quality....

This study investigates the impact of IFRS on income smoothing activities through loan lossprovisions of Australia and New Zealand banks for the period of 1995-2009. Prior to IFRSimplementation, bank loans provisioning is subject to managerial manipulation, possibly dueto the weakness in GAAP...

Building on Romano's recent analysis of the United States securities regulatory regime, we model competition between professional auditing associations. We show that such competition is an effective substitute for government regulation, providing an efficient means for auditors to signal their...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to test whether dominant shareholder(s) of a firm enhance performance in Bangladesh and thus examines the arbitrary moves by the regulatory bodies, in the name of promoting 'good corporate governance', to restrict ownership...

This paper investigates the association between corporate governance mechanisms and earnings quality after the implementation of the Malaysian Code of Corporate Governance in 2001. Using 1625 firm-year observations during the period 2003-2007, we tested whether corporate governance variables are...

This paper examines the effect of auditor tenure and provision of non-audit services on earnings conservatism. Following Basu (1997), we measure earnings conservatism by using the asymmetric timeliness of earnings model and the time-series test of timeliness in loss recognition model. Using a...