This paper investigates whether client engagement risks lengthen the client acceptance phase for audit firms and result in a longer auditor search period for their clients. Using a sample of auditor resignations over the period 2003-2008, we document that the auditor search period is longer for...

An empirical issue is whether a mutual fund’s change in intertemporal risk is intentional or arises from risk mean reversion. Our methodology uses actual fund trades to identify funds that actively change risk. Funds that are statistically identified as trading to change return variance or...

In modern banking, off-balance sheet (OBS) activity has played a greater role in banking business following rapid technological advancement and some regulatory development. Even though OBS activity has given birth to some new business prospects, appropriate risk measurement needs to be assessed...

This study explores whether managers' personal litigation risk impacts managerial empire building through the lens of their firms' cost behavior. Exploiting the staggered adoption of universal demand (UD) laws at the state-level in the U.S., we find a significant decrease in Selling, General &...