"Low-Balling" and Efficiency in a Two-Period Specialization Model of Auditing Competition

Contemporary Accounting Research

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 609-642

  Chan, Derek K ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 0346451549     PISSN: 08239150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1911-3846.1999.tb00598.x     Document Type: Article

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