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Auditor Independence and the Quality of Information in Financial Disclosures: Evidence for Market Discipline versus Sarbanes--Oxley Proscriptions

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  • James R. Brown
  • Dino Falaschetti
  • Michael J. Orlando

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Does auditor independence increase the quality of financial disclosures, and is regulation necessary to realize such improvements? Conventional wisdom answers "yes!," but lacks support from scholarly studies. We thus investigate whether auditor independence affects earnings quality in ways that prior research would have missed, and consider the efficiency-consequences of regulation that restricts auditors from producing non-audit services (NAS). Results from our research design offer stronger evidence that auditor independence increases earnings quality. Importantly, however, they offer little evidence that a client-firm's choice of auditor independence creates externalities, and thus speak more directly against the recent Sarbanes--Oxley restriction on NAS. Copyright 2009, Oxford University Press.

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  • James R. Brown & Dino Falaschetti & Michael J. Orlando, 2009. "Auditor Independence and the Quality of Information in Financial Disclosures: Evidence for Market Discipline versus Sarbanes--Oxley Proscriptions," American Law and Economics Review, American Law and Economics Association, vol. 12(1), pages 39-68.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:amlawe:v:12:y:2009:i:1:p:39-68
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    1. Ojo, Marianne, 2009. "Regulating the International Audit Market and the removal of barriers to entry: The provision of non audit services by audit firms and the 2006 Statutory Audit Directive," MPRA Paper 18624, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Muhammed Yassin Rahahle, 2017. "Extent of Compliance with Code of Ethics and its Impact on Internal Audit Effectiveness," International Journal of Academic Research in Accounting, Finance and Management Sciences, Human Resource Management Academic Research Society, International Journal of Academic Research in Accounting, Finance and Management Sciences, vol. 7(4), pages 40-61, October.

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