Measuring Financial Cycles with a Model-Based Filter: Empirical Evidence for the United States and the Euro Area

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriele Galati ◽  
Irma Hindrayanto ◽  
Siem Jan Koopman ◽  
Marente Vlekke
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Euro Area ◽  
The United States ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Financial Cycles

Multivariate Filter Estimation of Potential Output for the Euro Area and the United States

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Alichi ◽  
Olivier Bizimana ◽  
Silvia Domit ◽  
Emilio Fernandez-Corugedo ◽  
Douglas Laxton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Euro Area ◽  
The United States ◽  
Potential Output

An Examination of Audit Quality Surrounding Within-Firm Engagement Office Changes

2021 ◽  
pp. 0148558X2110596
Author(s):  
Adam J. Greiner ◽  
Julia L. Higgs ◽  
Thomas J. Smith
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Audit Quality ◽  
Resource Constraints ◽  
Discretionary Accruals ◽  
The United States ◽  
Primary Analysis ◽  
Quality Deterioration ◽  
Main Association

We examine the relation between within-firm office changes and audit quality in the United States. Our primary analysis documents a reduction in audit quality, measured using abnormal discretionary accruals and restatements, when the client is transferred to a smaller within-firm office (downsize effect). We are unable to find evidence that clients experience significant improvement in audit quality among transfers to a larger within-firm office (upsize effect). We then condition our sample on the change in the number of public clients of the receiving office to better understand the source of the underlying association. We find that our downsize effect is driven by offices experiencing a decrease in the number of public clients, suggesting that our main association is not entirely the result of resource constraints for the receiving office. We posit that this finding is consistent with audit quality deterioration among within-firm office changes to smaller offices driven, in part, by the receiving office’s inability to adequately overcome the knowledge transfer frictions that accompany a move to a new office. Our findings offer empirical evidence on consequences of within-firm office changes and are particularly relevant to regulators and preparers.

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