The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) presents a unique opportunity to study how auditors respond to an exogenous shock to the clients' operating environment. Also, due to the GFC, auditors were under pressure from clients to cut audit fees during the crisis. Regulators were concerned that lower...

Was the bank credit crunch following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 in many economies due to a loan supply collapse or to a decrease in loan demand? This paper investigates the effects of UK banks' pre-crises exposure to residential property markets on their post-crisis...

This study is motivated by the research gap concerning cash dividend payouts in China. To fill this gap, we explore the impact of overpaid dividends on future stock price crash risk. We use a dataset of 2,662 firms with 15,416 firm-year observations of China’s A-share listed firms for the...