This study investigates the effect of characteristics of board of directors and audit committee strength on audit fees internal control quality. In this study, 84 companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange were evaluated from 2014 to 2016. Panel regres sion model and panel logistic regression...

We examine the impact of ownership structure on audit pricing, using number of Multiple Large Shareholders (MLS), in order to understand their monitoring and oversight function. Previous studies have focused exclusively on percentage holding as a measure of ownership structure with less than...

We show that peer firms play an important role in shaping corporate earnings management decisions. To overcome identification issues in isolating peer effects, we use an instrumental variables strategy based on two plausibly exogenous events: fund flow-induced selling pressure by passive...