Audit quality, auditor compensation and initial public offering underpricing

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 391-416

  Chang, Xin ^a,b   Gygax, André F ^a   Oon, Elaine ^a   Zhang, Hong Feng ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Auditor compensation; Auditor quality; Initial public offering underpricing

Indexed keywords

EID: 49649122312     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-629X.2008.00275.x     Document Type: Article

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