The Price Contagion Effects of Financial Reporting Fraud and Reputational Losses: Evidence from the Individual Audit Partner Level
This study investigates the existence of price contagion effects for the low-quality audits of individual audit partners and the associated reputational losses in China. Low-quality partners are identified as those whose clients have been sanctioned by regulators for financial reporting fraud. Our e...
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Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
2016
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الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/1589 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soa_research/article/2616/viewcontent/PriceContagion_FinReporting_Fraud_2016_wp.pdf |
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المؤسسة: | Singapore Management University |
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الملخص: | This study investigates the existence of price contagion effects for the low-quality audits of individual audit partners and the associated reputational losses in China. Low-quality partners are identified as those whose clients have been sanctioned by regulators for financial reporting fraud. Our evidence shows that sanctions induce a significant stock price decline among the contagion firms that share common low-quality partners and common low-quality audit firms; however, the decline is greater for the former. We also find that the price contagion effects of low-quality partners are more pronounced for firms located in regions with weak institutional development and less pronounced for state-owned firms. Finally, we find that low-quality audit partners suffer from reputational losses in terms of a higher likelihood of partner turnover and a reduced market share at the partner level. |
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