Table A1

Sample construction

Firm-yearsUnique firms
Firms with audit fee data from World scope for 2000–2016236,91135,929
Drop observations with missing data for an audit fee model68,3548,772
 168,55727,157
World scope observations with non-missing audit fee model data recorded in Markit database6,052357

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