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Working Paper: Why do Auditors Fail to Report Material Weaknesses in Internal Controls? Evidence from the PCAOB Data
Working Paper: Heterogeneity in Expertise in a Credence Goods Setting: Evidence from Audit Partners
Publication: The Impact of the PCAOB Individual Engagement Inspection Process - Preliminary Evidence
Published Paper: Auditors' Quantitative Materiality Judgements: Properties and Implications for Financial Reporting Reliability
Published Paper: The Economic Consequences of Audit Firm's Quality Control System Deficiencies
Published: Public Oversight and Reporting Credibility: Evidence from the PCAOB Inspection Regime
Working Paper: What's in a Name? Reputation and Monitoring in the Audit Market
Published Paper: ROC Curves and Nonrandom Data
Published Paper: Do Practitioner Assessments Agree with Academic Proxies for Audit Quality? Evidence from PCAOB and Internal Inspections
Working Paper: On the Economics of Audit Partner Rotation and Tenure: Evidence from PCAOB Data
Working Paper: Random Forests and Selected Samples
Heckroc: ROC Curves for Selected Samples
Working Paper: Consequences of Low-Quality Audits for Engagement Partners: The Importance of Audit Firm Quality Control Systems
Working Paper: The Last Chance to Improve Financial Reporting Reliability: Evidence from Recorded and Waived Audit Adjustments
Working Paper: The Economics of Audit Production: What Matters for Audit Quality?
Working Paper: Does Information on Audit Participants Explain Audit Quality of U.S. Multinational Corporations?
Published Paper: Inferring Zambia's HIV Prevalence from a Selected Sample
Working Paper: Auditor Size, Partner-Specialization, and Private Company Audit Adjustments: Insights from the Broker-Dealer Industry
Working Paper: Auditors are Known by the Companies They Keep
Working Paper: The Effects of Non-Big 4 Mergers on Audit Efficiency and Audit Market Competition
Working Paper: Profit Persistence in the U.S. Audit Market
Working Paper: Audit Firm Internal Governance, Auditor Behavior, and Financial Reporting Quality
Working Paper: Do Entry Barriers to the Public Company Audit Market Deter Low Quality Audit Firms?
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