We investigate organisational and environmental factors that influence firms' incentives to develop high-quality internal audit functions (IAFs) by using a unique international sample formed by matching proprietary data from a global internal auditor survey with public data obtained from...

We examine the impact of the initial PCAOB international inspection in a country on the Big 4/non-Big 4 audit quality differential (the so-called Big N effect) for non-US-listed foreign public companies. Our findings point to the initial PCAOB international inspection narrowing the Big N effect...

In analyzing a large panel of elections in 56 countries for the period 1989-2012, we show that political uncertainty surrounding elections can affect asymmetric cost behaviors to activity changes (i.e., cost stickiness). The asymmetry in cost behaviors is stronger during election years than in...

We exploit the staggered introduction of the PCAOB’s international inspection program to examine the role that the stringency of public audit oversight plays in shaping US institutional investors’ home bias. Analyzing a sample of foreign firms listed in the United States, we evaluate whether...