This paper examines whether the clients of a merged audit firm have increased audit fees following the merger. 
Using a merger of audit firms in Japan as a setting, this paper reports that clients of the merged firm are charged lower audit fees after the merger.

An Empirical Evidence of Audit Firm Merger in Japan

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