# kaal:claim:4734750-015

**Claim.** Market concentration among the top five audit firms itself creates high barriers to entry for new participants in the code review market.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Source quote.**

> The current market dynamics dominated by the top 5 audit firms also create high barriers to entry for new players to enter into the code review market.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Code Review DAO* (2024), Current Players in the Field, page 15

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Code Review DAO (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4734750

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `60eadf91c0913468505afc664c8d8d1e1673d6c5326d031ca7060addb8ab2eda` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202024%20-%20Code%20Review%20DAO.pdf

**Topics.** risk-and-incentives, economics, compliance, open-source-and-code

**Keywords.** barriers-to-entry, market-concentration, audit-firms, code-review-market

**Related claims.**

- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3995709-019
- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4755632-017
- extends: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3995709-012
- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4755632-024
- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4755632-026

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