Journal of Accounting & Economics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Accounting & Economics is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Real effects of lagged guidance from prudential regulators on CECL136
Estimating profitability decomposition frameworks via machine learning: Implications for earnings forecasting and financial statement analysis133
Editorial Board120
Information sharing within institutional investor networks96
The Learning Hypothesis revisited: A discussion of Sani, Shroff and White (2023)90
Does observability of ratings shopping improve ratings quality?83
Editorial data73
Mandatory disclosure and learning from external market participants: Evidence from the JOBS act65
Board risk oversight and environmental and social performance54
Calling for transparency: Evidence from a field experiment53
New accounting standards and the performance of quantitative investors48
Retail investors and ESG news46
The innovation consequences of judicial efficiency46
Non-GAAP earnings and stock price crash risk45
A review of China-related accounting research in the past 25 years44
Editorial Board40
Meet the press: Survey evidence on financial journalists as information intermediaries40
Acknowledgement40
Editorial Board39
Financial statements vs. FinTech: A discussion of Minnis, Sutherland, and Vetter38
Accounting conservatism and relational contracting35
Editorial Board34
Appraisal rights and corporate disclosure during mergers and acquisitions34
Accounting and innovation: Paths forward for research32
Tax enforcement and R&D credits32
Towards a design-based approach to accounting research32
Institutional trading, news, and accounting anomalies32
Reflections on the founding of The Journal of Accounting and Economics32
Tax administration quality and foreign investment in developing countries: Evidence from participation in tax inspectors without borders31
Who did it matters: Executive equity compensation and financial reporting fraud31
The benefits of transaction-level data: The case of NielsenIQ scanner data30
Everything changes: A look at sustainable investing and disclosure over time and a discussion of “Institutional investors, climate disclosure, and carbon emissions”30
Editorial Board30
The economic consequences of GASB financial statement disclosure29
Editorial Board28
Discussion of “Obfuscation in mutual funds”: The role of financial advisers27
Processing inflation news: A discussion of Binz, Ferracuti, and Joos (2023)26
Reporting regulation and corporate innovation26
Supply chain shocks and firm productivity: The role of reporting quality26
Advertising rivalry and discretionary disclosure26
Editorial Board26
Aggregate accruals and market returns: The role of aggregate M&A activity26
Litigation risk and strategic M&A valuations24
Contracting in the Dark: The rise of public-side lenders in the syndicated loan market24
Not just for investors: The role of earnings announcements in guiding job seekers24
The future performance implications of Non-GAAP firms’ investments24
Predictive analytics and centralization of authority23
Do major corporate customers deter supplier misconduct?22
EDITORIAL DATA22
Standing on the shoulders of giants: Financial reporting comparability and knowledge accumulation21
Editorial Board21
Community membership and reciprocity in lending: Evidence from informal markets21
Shall we talk? The role of interactive investor platforms in corporate communication20
Assurance level choice, CPA fees, and financial reporting benefits: Inferences from U.S. private firms20
Competence vs. Independence: Auditors' connections with members of their clients’ business community20
A reexamination of investors' reaction to tax shelter news: Evidence from the Luxembourg tax leaks20
Does transparency about banks’ lending costs lower firms’ borrowing costs? Evidence from India20
Complexities in utilizing the patent pilot program as shock to judicial efficiency felt by firms20
Unlikely sabotage: Comment on Bloomfield, Marvão, and Spagnolo19
Comment on Cong et al., “Tax loss harvesting with cryptocurrencies”19
Client restatement announcement, audit office human capital investment, and audit quality improvements19
Firms’ real and reporting response to taxation: A discussion19
Labor supply and M&A in the audit market18
Strategic complexity in disclosure18
Measuring innovation and navigating its unique information issues: A review of the accounting literature on innovation18
Does generative AI facilitate investor Trading? Early evidence from ChatGPT outages18
Tax havens and reputational costs17
Information uncertainty and organizational design17
MiFID II unbundling and sell-side analyst research17
Relative performance evaluation, sabotage and collusion17
When does forecasting GAAP earnings entail unreasonable effort?16
The effect of patent disclosure quality on innovation16
Trading of emission allowances and reporting incentives15
Long-term firm gains from short-term managerial focus: Myopia and voluntary disclosures15
Cross-border investment, deterrence, and compliance effects of ownership transparency15
EDITORIAL DATA15
Acknowledgement15
Does differential taxation of short-term relative to long-term capital gains affect long-term investment?14
Discussion of “Accounting standards and antidumping investigations” by Stephen Teng Sun, Shang-Jin Wei and Jin Xie14
Critical audit matters and internal control quality: The disciplining role of CAM reporting14
EDITORIAL DATA14
The effects of ratings disclosure by bank regulators14
Editorial Board14
Distinguishing between recurring and nonrecurring components of earnings using unobserved components modeling14
How does shareholder governance affect the cost of borrowing? Evidence from the passage of anti-takeover provisions14
EDITORIAL DATA14
Do personal income taxes affect corporate tax-motivated profit shifting?14
The impact of IP box regimes on the M&A market14
Are auditors rewarded for low audit quality? The case of auditor lenience in the insurance industry13
Investment, inflation, and the role of internal information systems as a transmission channel13
Do Managers learn from institutional investors through direct interactions?13
Pay for prudence13
The role of accounting information in an era of fake news13
Institutional investors, climate disclosure, and carbon emissions13
Vocal delivery quality in earnings conference calls13
Financial reporting and disclosure practices in China12
Contemporary insights on corporate guidance: A discussion of Call, Hribar, Skinner, and Volant (2024)12
How do consumers use ESG disclosure? Evidence from a randomized field experiment with everyday product purchases12
Preference dynamics and risk-taking incentives12
An information quality-based explanation for loan loss allowance inadequacy during the 2008 financial crisis11
Causality redux: The evolution of empirical methods in accounting research and the growth of quasi-experiments11
The asset pricing and real implications of relationship intensity disclosure11
Parallels between structural estimation and causal inference: A discussion of Armstrong et al. (2022)11
Do signatory auditors with tax expertise facilitate or curb tax aggressiveness?11
The unicorn quest: Deriving empirical predictions from theory11
Do tax-based proprietary costs discourage public listing?10
Importing activists: Determinants and consequences of increased cross-border shareholder activism10
Employee responses to CEO activism10
Tax-loss harvesting with cryptocurrencies10
Executive compensation, individual-level tax rates, and insider trading profits9
Editorial Data9
Internal governance and outside directors’ connections to non-director executives9
Accounting information and risk shifting with asymmetrically informed creditors9
Conflicts of interest in subscriber-paid credit ratings9
The role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) information in supply-chain contracting: Evidence from the expansion of CSR rating coverage9
With a Grain of Salt: Investor Reactions to Uncertain News and (Non)disclosure9
Disclosure regulation, cost of capital, and firm values9
Data visualization in 10-K filings8
Partisan regulatory actions: Evidence from the SEC8
Public environmental enforcement and private lender monitoring: Evidence from environmental covenants8
Acknowledgement8
Acknowledgement8
Equity-based compensation and the timing of share repurchases: the role of the corporate calendar7
Signaling innovation: The nontax benefits of claiming R&D tax credits7
Mandatory disclosure of investors’ fossil fuel holdings7
Political euphoria and corporate disclosures: An investigation of CEO partisan alignment with the president of the United States7
The impact of generative AI on information processing: Evidence from the ban of ChatGPT in Italy7
The SEC's September spike: Regulatory inconsistency within the fiscal year7
Dividend taxes and investment efficiency: Evidence from the 2003 U.S. personal taxation reform6
Executive compensation: The trend toward one-size-fits-all6
Capital-market effects of tipper-tippee insider trading law: Evidence from the Newman ruling6
Editorial Board6
Early-life experience and CEOs’ reactions to COVID-196
The effect of bond market transparency on bank loan contracting6
Real effects of proposed scope 3 disclosures6
The wisdom of crowds and the market's response to earnings news: Evidence using the geographic dispersion of investors6
Firm-level political risk and credit markets5
Editorial Board5
Mandatory financial information disclosure and credit ratings5
Public firm disclosures and the market for innovation5
Compensation regulation in banking: Executive director behavior and bank performance after the EU bonus cap5
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