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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board152
Does observability of ratings shopping improve ratings quality?145
Editorial data131
Estimating profitability decomposition frameworks via machine learning: Implications for earnings forecasting and financial statement analysis105
Real effects of lagged guidance from prudential regulators on CECL97
Board risk oversight and environmental and social performance89
Weak capital, weak provisions—Credit risk provisioning under IFRS 980
Information sharing within institutional investor networks67
Mandatory disclosure and learning from external market participants: Evidence from the JOBS act63
The Learning Hypothesis revisited: A discussion of Sani, Shroff and White (2023)56
Calling for transparency: Evidence from a field experiment53
A review of China-related accounting research in the past 25 years51
The innovation consequences of judicial efficiency50
New accounting standards and the performance of quantitative investors50
Non-GAAP earnings and stock price crash risk45
Meet the press: Survey evidence on financial journalists as information intermediaries42
Retail investors and ESG news42
Editorial Board40
Acknowledgement40
Editorial Board39
Financial statements vs. FinTech: A discussion of Minnis, Sutherland, and Vetter37
Towards a design-based approach to accounting research36
Accounting conservatism and relational contracting36
Editorial Board36
Appraisal rights and corporate disclosure during mergers and acquisitions36
Reflections on the founding of The Journal of Accounting and Economics35
Editorial Board33
Institutional trading, news, and accounting anomalies33
Accounting and innovation: Paths forward for research33
The economic consequences of GASB financial statement disclosure32
Editorial Board32
Tax enforcement and R&D credits31
Everything changes: A look at sustainable investing and disclosure over time and a discussion of “Institutional investors, climate disclosure, and carbon emissions”31
Tax administration quality and foreign investment in developing countries: Evidence from participation in tax inspectors without borders31
Advertising rivalry and discretionary disclosure30
Who did it matters: Executive equity compensation and financial reporting fraud29
The benefits of transaction-level data: The case of NielsenIQ scanner data29
Processing inflation news: A discussion of Binz, Ferracuti, and Joos (2023)28
Reporting regulation and corporate innovation28
Editorial Board27
Supply chain shocks and firm productivity: The role of reporting quality27
Predictive analytics and centralization of authority26
The future performance implications of Non-GAAP firms’ investments26
Contracting in the Dark: The rise of public-side lenders in the syndicated loan market26
Litigation risk and strategic M&A valuations25
Not just for investors: The role of earnings announcements in guiding job seekers24
A reexamination of investors' reaction to tax shelter news: Evidence from the Luxembourg tax leaks23
Assurance level choice, CPA fees, and financial reporting benefits: Inferences from U.S. private firms23
EDITORIAL DATA23
Standing on the shoulders of giants: Financial reporting comparability and knowledge accumulation22
Community membership and reciprocity in lending: Evidence from informal markets22
Complexities in utilizing the patent pilot program as shock to judicial efficiency felt by firms22
Comment on Cong et al., “Tax loss harvesting with cryptocurrencies”22
Do major corporate customers deter supplier misconduct?22
Unlikely sabotage: Comment on Bloomfield, Marvão, and Spagnolo22
Does transparency about banks’ lending costs lower firms’ borrowing costs? Evidence from India21
Client restatement announcement, audit office human capital investment, and audit quality improvements21
Strategic complexity in disclosure21
Firms’ real and reporting response to taxation: A discussion20
Does generative AI facilitate investor Trading? Early evidence from ChatGPT outages20
Carbon accounting quality: Measurement and the role of assurance20
Measuring innovation and navigating its unique information issues: A review of the accounting literature on innovation19
Competence vs. Independence: Auditors' connections with members of their clients’ business community19
Relative performance evaluation, sabotage and collusion19
Shall we talk? The role of interactive investor platforms in corporate communication19
Tax havens and reputational costs18
The effect of patent disclosure quality on innovation18
MiFID II unbundling and sell-side analyst research18
Information uncertainty and organizational design17
Labor supply and M&A in the audit market17
When does forecasting GAAP earnings entail unreasonable effort?17
Editorial Board17
Trading of emission allowances and reporting incentives16
Cross-border investment, deterrence, and compliance effects of ownership transparency16
Do designated market makers facilitate earnings news discovery?16
Discussion of “Accounting standards and antidumping investigations” by Stephen Teng Sun, Shang-Jin Wei and Jin Xie16
How does shareholder governance affect the cost of borrowing? Evidence from the passage of anti-takeover provisions15
Editorial Board15
EDITORIAL DATA15
Does differential taxation of short-term relative to long-term capital gains affect long-term investment?15
Long-term firm gains from short-term managerial focus: Myopia and voluntary disclosures15
Acknowledgement15
EDITORIAL DATA15
EDITORIAL DATA14
Investment, inflation, and the role of internal information systems as a transmission channel14
Do personal income taxes affect corporate tax-motivated profit shifting?14
Pay for prudence14
Distinguishing between recurring and nonrecurring components of earnings using unobserved components modeling14
The role of accounting information in an era of fake news14
Do Managers learn from institutional investors through direct interactions?14
Vocal delivery quality in earnings conference calls14
The effects of ratings disclosure by bank regulators14
Critical audit matters and internal control quality: The disciplining role of CAM reporting14
Institutional investors, climate disclosure, and carbon emissions14
Are auditors rewarded for low audit quality? The case of auditor lenience in the insurance industry13
Contemporary insights on corporate guidance: A discussion of Call, Hribar, Skinner, and Volant (2024)12
An information quality-based explanation for loan loss allowance inadequacy during the 2008 financial crisis12
The unicorn quest: Deriving empirical predictions from theory12
Preference dynamics and risk-taking incentives12
The asset pricing and real implications of relationship intensity disclosure12
Financial reporting and disclosure practices in China12
Do signatory auditors with tax expertise facilitate or curb tax aggressiveness?12
How do consumers use ESG disclosure? Evidence from a randomized field experiment with everyday product purchases12
Causality redux: The evolution of empirical methods in accounting research and the growth of quasi-experiments12
Tax-loss harvesting with cryptocurrencies11
Employee responses to CEO activism11
Parallels between structural estimation and causal inference: A discussion of Armstrong et al. (2022)11
Importing activists: Determinants and consequences of increased cross-border shareholder activism11
Do tax-based proprietary costs discourage public listing?11
The role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) information in supply-chain contracting: Evidence from the expansion of CSR rating coverage11
Internal governance and outside directors’ connections to non-director executives10
Accounting information and risk shifting with asymmetrically informed creditors10
Public environmental enforcement and private lender monitoring: Evidence from environmental covenants9
Data visualization in 10-K filings9
With a Grain of Salt: Investor Reactions to Uncertain News and (Non)disclosure9
Executive compensation, individual-level tax rates, and insider trading profits9
Acknowledgement8
The SEC's September spike: Regulatory inconsistency within the fiscal year8
Partisan regulatory actions: Evidence from the SEC8
Acknowledgement8
Acknowledgement8
Signaling innovation: The nontax benefits of claiming R&D tax credits8
Disclosure regulation, cost of capital, and firm values8
Conflicts of interest in subscriber-paid credit ratings8
Political euphoria and corporate disclosures: An investigation of CEO partisan alignment with the president of the United States8
Capital-market effects of tipper-tippee insider trading law: Evidence from the Newman ruling7
The impact of generative AI on information processing: Evidence from the ban of ChatGPT in Italy7
The effect of bond market transparency on bank loan contracting7
Real effects of proposed scope 3 disclosures7
Equity-based compensation and the timing of share repurchases: the role of the corporate calendar7
Mandatory disclosure of investors’ fossil fuel holdings7
SEC scrutiny and corporate risk-taking6
Dividend taxes and investment efficiency: Evidence from the 2003 U.S. personal taxation reform6
The wisdom of crowds and the market's response to earnings news: Evidence using the geographic dispersion of investors6
Editorial Board6
Executive compensation: The trend toward one-size-fits-all5
The Spillover Effect of Public Firm Audit Regulation on Private Firm Auditing: Evidence from Common Partners5
Early-life experience and CEOs’ reactions to COVID-195
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