Audit fee pressure and audit risk: evidence from the financial crisis of 2008Footnote^*

^*Accepted by Hong Hwang. We have received helpful comments from seminar participants at Seoul National University and the Korean Accounting Association’s annual conference. All remaining errors and omissions are our own.

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