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Focusing on the merger of Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand in 1998, we document increased audit quality (measured … by earnings quality of the clients) for the merged firm and other big-X auditors 1 during the post-merger period because … and 2) the value relevance of earnings has significantly increased. Furthermore, we find evidence that in the post-merger …
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more independent in the post-merger period only if the mergers increase the aggregate quasi rents at stake. Proxying audit … post-merger increase in the propensity for MAOs in this type of merger is positively associated with the magnitude of the …
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This study investigates if hiring auditors with Chinese reverse-merger expertise affected 182 Chinese companies that … executed reverse mergers with U.S. shell companies from 2003 to 2011 to become U.S. publicly traded companies (Chinese Reverse-merger …
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We examine efficiency improvement associated with audit firm mergers. Our analysis is made possible by a unique dataset of audit hours in China. We find a significant reduction in audit hours, unaccompanied by a deterioration in audit quality, of merged audit firms. Further, we find a larger...
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