The association between institutional ownership and audit properties
- Authors
- Han, Sam; Kang, Tony; Rees, Lynn
- Issue Date
- 2013
- Publisher
- ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
- Keywords
- audit quality; institutional ownership; monitoring; audit risk; corporate governance
- Citation
- ASIA-PACIFIC JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING & ECONOMICS, v.20, no.2, pp.199 - 222
- Indexed
- SSCI
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- ASIA-PACIFIC JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING & ECONOMICS
- Volume
- 20
- Number
- 2
- Start Page
- 199
- End Page
- 222
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/106580
- DOI
- 10.1080/16081625.2012.748449
- ISSN
- 1608-1625
- Abstract
- We are interested in channels through which institutional ownership affects corporate governance and in particular whether financial statement audit is one of them. We hypothesize that institutional investors can influence corporate policy to employ governance mechanisms that reduce their monitoring costs. Our evidence shows that firms are more likely to hire a Big 4 auditor (our proxy for audit quality) when long-term institutional ownership is high, suggesting that long-term institutional investors view high-quality audits as a viable means of improving corporate governance while reducing their direct monitoring costs. We find no association between auditor choice and short-term institutional ownership. Next, we find that auditors charge higher fees (our proxy for audit risk) when short-term institutional ownership is high, consistent with short-term investors creating greater incentives for managers to act myopically. We find no association between audit fees and long-term institutional ownership. Taken together, our evidence suggests that long-term institutional investors demand higher quality audits to enhance corporate monitoring, and that short-term institutional ownership is positively associated with higher audit risk.
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