How do “gatekeepers” affect credit risk?

This study investigates the relationship between auditor tenure and credit default swap (CDS) spreads of U.S. firms based on quantile regression. After allowing for common determinants of CDS spreads, auditor tenure exerts both statistically and economically significant additional impacts on the CDS...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Xu Li, Xingtong Zhang, Yinggang Zhou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2021-09-01
Series:Journal of Management Science and Engineering
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2096232021000470