Public Oversight and Reporting Credibility: Evidence from the PCAOB Audit Inspection Regime

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Brandon Gipper

Stanford University Graduate School of Business

Christian Leuz

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI); Leibniz Institute SAFE; CESifo Research Network; Center for Financial Studies (CFS)

Mark G. Maffett

University of Miami - Department of Accounting

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Date Written: October 1, 2019

Abstract

This paper studies the impact of public audit oversight on financial reporting credibility. We analyze changes in market responses to earnings news after public audit oversight is introduced, exploiting that the regime onset depends on fiscal year-ends, auditors, and the rollout of auditor inspections. We find that investors respond more strongly to earnings news following public audit oversight. Corroborating these findings, we find an increase in volume responses to 10-K filings after the new regime. Our results show that public audit oversight can enhance reporting credibility and that this credibility is priced in capital markets.

Keywords: Regulation, Enforcement, Public oversight, Auditing, Earnings response coefficients

JEL Classification: G14, G38, K22, M41, M42, M48

Suggested Citation

Gipper, Brandon and Leuz, Christian and Maffett, Mark G., Public Oversight and Reporting Credibility: Evidence from the PCAOB Audit Inspection Regime (October 1, 2019). European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 453/2015, Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 15-40, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2641211 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2641211

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