National level, city levelauditor industry specialization and cost of debt

Accounting Horizons

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 395-417

  Li, Chan ^a   Xie, Yuan ^b   Zhou, Jian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditor industry specialization; Bond spread; City level industry specialist; Credit rating; National level industry specialist

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958609674     PISSN: 08887993     EISSN: 15587975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/acch.2010.24.3.395     Document Type: Article

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