Local Institutions, Audit Quality, and Corporate Scandals of US-Listed Foreign Firms
Using data on shareholder-initiated class action lawsuits in the US, I investigate the corporate scandals of US-listed foreign firms. The shareholders of scandal firms suffer considerable loss in both the short term and the long term. I document that firms domiciled in countries with weak institutio...
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Journal of business ethics
Year: 2016, Volume: 133, Issue: 2, Pages: 351-373 |
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Spillover effect
B Big 4 auditors B Class action lawsuits B The bonding theory B US-listed foreign firms B corporate scandals |
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