Issues in Examining the Effect of Auditor Litigation on Audit Fees
总结了现有关于审计师诉讼风险对审计费用影响的研究，讨论了研究设计中的问题及未来研究方向，帮助读者判断是否深入阅读原文。
A large body of research has studied audit fees aiming to determine whether they reflect auditors’ response to clients’ risks, auditors’ expertise, competitive pressures in the audit market, and independence issues between auditors and clients. Badertscher, Jorgensen, Katz, and Kinney [2014] study the effect of auditor litigation risk on audit fees. Litigation risk is expected to be a strong incentive for auditors to deliver high quality audits and an important determinant of audit fees. Nevertheless, determining the impact of litigation risk is complicated because although there is considerable variation in audit fees, there are scarce opportunities to examine variation in litigation risk. This paper provides a brief summary of extant studies examining the effect of auditor litigation on audit fees, and discusses research design issues and future research opportunities in this area.