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We investigate the relation between the degree of audit partner narcissism and income‐increasing earnings management of client firms at both the individual and team levels of analysis in Japan. With the use of the size of audit partner signatures as a proxy for the degree of narcissism, we find that audit partner narcissism is negatively related to income‐increasing earnings management. Our team level...