Differential Audit Quality, Propensity Score Matching and Rosenbaum Bounds for Confounding Variables

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 39, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 606-648

  Peel, Michael J ^a   Makepeace, Gerald H ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditor premiums; Heckman methods; Multi sample matching; Propensity score matching; Quantile regression; Rosenbaum Bounds; Selection bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863601210     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5957.2012.02287.x     Document Type: Article

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