Real effects of the audit choice
We hypothesize that the choice to obtain a financial statement audit provides external financiers with incremental information about the firm, which helps reduce information asymmetry and financing frictions. Using a natural experiment, we show that when external financiers observe a firm׳s choice t...
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Elsevier BV,
2018-11-06T16:53:16Z.
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