Should further mergers be allowed? Product differentiation and merger in the external audit market

Keyphrases

• Product Differentiation 100%
• External Audit 100%
• Audit Market 100%
• Auditors 66%
• Microdata 33%
• Big 4 Firms 33%
• Highly Concentrated 33%
• Demand Estimates 33%
• Market Concentration 33%
• Competitive Effect 33%
• Public Companies 33%
• Merger Effects 33%
• Multinomial Probit Model 33%
• Audit Services Market 33%
• Sequential Mergers 33%
• Production Differentiation 33%

Economics, Econometrics and Finance

• Merger 100%
• Product Differentiation 100%
• Price 12%
• Probit Model 12%
• Market Concentration 12%
• Public Company 12%