This paper examines the relation between audit market competition and audit quality. We use the staggered introduction of bullet trains in China as shocks to travel time between audit clients and prospective audit firms, which increases the threat of competition for incumbent audit firms. Using...

We document the effect of policy-induced credit supply on fueling asset prices that lead to financial crises and broad economic outcomes. By comparing loans that fall under the current conforming loan limit (CLL) to those under the old limit last year in a difference-in-differences setting, we...

We document that banking deregulation leads banks to offer lower initial rates on adjustable-rate mortgages to attract borrowers, but banks also shroud these contracts by increasing back-loaded resetting rates. More shrouding can be explained by higher proportion of naïve borrowers following...