Leverage and Audit Firm Mergers
Preprint
- 1 January 1999
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier BV in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
We study what a simulated market of pure price competition reveals about market shares and per-partner profits in Big Six audit firm mergers for 1997. In the moThis publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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