This paper presents an economic framework to study strategic interactions along the analyst--auditor--owner monitoring chain in a financial reporting game and sheds light on possible consequences of various capital market regulations. We find that enhancing the analyst's independence alleviates...

We study the effects of the disclosure of critical audit matters (CAMs) on an auditor's audit effort and an investor's scrutiny effort decisions, as well as on investment efficiency. Both the auditor and the investor can prevent a bad investment by respectively auditing and scrutinizing the...

This paper studies the accounting treatment of uncertainty and how it affects a firm's capital structure. We distinguish two sources of uncertainty that raise reliability concerns: inherent uncertainty and incentive uncertainty. By inherent uncertainty, we refer to uncertainty about the quality...