Market competitiveness and Big 5 pricing: Evidence from China's binary market

International Journal of Accounting

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-24

  Chen, Charles J P ^a   Su, Xijia ^a   Wu, Xi ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Audit pricing; Big 5; Binary market structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847360077     PISSN: 00207063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intacc.2006.12.001     Document Type: Article

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