Legal Penalties and Audit Quality: An Experimental Investigation

Contemporary Accounting Research

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 685-710

  King, Ronald R ^a   Schwartz, Rachel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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EID: 0002424162     PISSN: 08239150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1911-3846.1999.tb00601.x     Document Type: Article

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