Recently, aresearch paper entitled“It’s a Small World: The Importance of Social Connections with Auditors to Mutual Fund Mangers’ Portfolio Decisions” co-authoredby Lecturer Li Ting fromtheSchool of Accounting and his collaborators has been accepted by the Journal of Accounting Research, a top international journal of accounting.
This paper studies the impactson fund shareholdings from the social connections between fund managers and auditors of listed companies.