Journal of Accounting & Economics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Accounting & Economics is 4. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board235
Editorial data186
The Learning Hypothesis revisited: A discussion of Sani, Shroff and White (2023)168
Does observability of ratings shopping improve ratings quality?141
Board risk oversight and environmental and social performance138
Information sharing within institutional investor networks124
Weak capital, weak provisions—Credit risk provisioning under IFRS 9115
Mandatory disclosure and learning from external market participants: Evidence from the JOBS act100
Calling for transparency: Evidence from a field experiment81
Imperfect Expectations in Loan Loss Forecasts69
Real effects of lagged guidance from prudential regulators on CECL66
Accounting and the informal economy: A review and discussion65
Estimating profitability decomposition frameworks via machine learning: Implications for earnings forecasting and financial statement analysis60
Editorial Board56
New accounting standards and the performance of quantitative investors54
Managers’ understanding of macroeconomic news, competitor influence, and firm performance: Evidence from consumer sentiment news52
The innovation consequences of judicial efficiency49
A review of China-related accounting research in the past 25 years48
Retail investors and ESG news48
Appraisal rights and corporate disclosure during mergers and acquisitions47
Editorial Board47
Towards a design-based approach to accounting research47
Reflections on the founding of The Journal of Accounting and Economics46
Editorial Board46
Acknowledgement45
Editorial Board44
Accounting conservatism and relational contracting43
Accounting and innovation: Paths forward for research43
Auditing smart contracts42
Audit centralization and audit quality: Evidence from Chinese cities41
Estimation precision and robust inference in archival research40
Financial statements vs. FinTech: A discussion of Minnis, Sutherland, and Vetter39
Technological investment and accounting: A demand-side perspective on labor markets and enrollments39
Editorial Board39
Institutional trading, news, and accounting anomalies36
Tax administration quality and foreign investment in developing countries: Evidence from participation in tax inspectors without borders36
Advertising rivalry and discretionary disclosure35
The benefits of transaction-level data: The case of NielsenIQ scanner data35
The economic consequences of GASB financial statement disclosure33
Everything changes: A look at sustainable investing and disclosure over time and a discussion of “Institutional investors, climate disclosure, and carbon emissions”32
Tax enforcement and R&D credits31
Do investor preferences affect analyst research? Evidence from Chinese dual-listed shares31
Processing inflation news: A discussion of Binz, Ferracuti, and Joos (2023)30
Reporting regulation and corporate innovation30
Editorial Board29
The future performance implications of Non-GAAP firms’ investments29
Supply chain shocks and firm productivity: The role of reporting quality29
Contracting in the Dark: The rise of public-side lenders in the syndicated loan market28
Supply chain washing: Strategic disclosure of corporate suppliers27
Internal information quality and performance metric selection27
EDITORIAL DATA26
Predictive analytics and centralization of authority26
Litigation risk and strategic M&A valuations26
Complexities in utilizing the patent pilot program as shock to judicial efficiency felt by firms26
Not just for investors: The role of earnings announcements in guiding job seekers26
Assurance level choice, CPA fees, and financial reporting benefits: Inferences from U.S. private firms25
A reexamination of investors' reaction to tax shelter news: Evidence from the Luxembourg tax leaks25
Editorial data24
Community membership and reciprocity in lending: Evidence from informal markets23
Firms’ real and reporting response to taxation: A discussion23
Comment on Cong et al., “Tax loss harvesting with cryptocurrencies”23
Unlikely sabotage: Comment on Bloomfield, Marvão, and Spagnolo23
Do major corporate customers deter supplier misconduct?23
Standing on the shoulders of giants: Financial reporting comparability and knowledge accumulation23
Do financial disclosures affect corporate sustainability practices?22
Client restatement announcement, audit office human capital investment, and audit quality improvements22
Shall we talk? The role of interactive investor platforms in corporate communication21
Does generative AI facilitate investor Trading? Early evidence from ChatGPT outages21
Competence vs. Independence: Auditors' connections with members of their clients’ business community21
Does transparency about banks’ lending costs lower firms’ borrowing costs? Evidence from India21
Measuring innovation and navigating its unique information issues: A review of the accounting literature on innovation21
Strategic complexity in disclosure21
Editorial Board20
Carbon accounting quality: Measurement and the role of assurance20
Editorial data20
Labor supply and M&A in the audit market19
MiFID II unbundling and sell-side analyst research19
Information uncertainty and organizational design19
The effect of patent disclosure quality on innovation19
Tax havens and reputational costs19
Relative performance evaluation, sabotage and collusion19
Discussion of “Accounting standards and antidumping investigations” by Stephen Teng Sun, Shang-Jin Wei and Jin Xie18
Long-term firm gains from short-term managerial focus: Myopia and voluntary disclosures18
Trading of emission allowances and reporting incentives17
Do designated market makers facilitate earnings news discovery?17
Acknowledgement17
The role of federal agency accounting quality in federal budget allocation: Evidence from audit opinions16
How does shareholder governance affect the cost of borrowing? Evidence from the passage of anti-takeover provisions16
Cross-border investment, deterrence, and compliance effects of ownership transparency16
EDITORIAL DATA16
The effects of tax clienteles on disclosure: Evidence from the municipal bond market16
EDITORIAL DATA15
Website cookies and voluntary disclosure15
Insider Trading After the 2022 Rule 10b5-1 Amendment15
Editorial Board15
Does differential taxation of short-term relative to long-term capital gains affect long-term investment?15
Distinguishing between recurring and nonrecurring components of earnings using unobserved components modeling14
Critical audit matters and internal control quality: The disciplining role of CAM reporting14
The role of executives in foreign tax planning14
Do personal income taxes affect corporate tax-motivated profit shifting?14
Re-doing the audit13
Pay for prudence12
Earnings management in private equity portfolio firms during fundraising12
The role of accounting information in an era of fake news12
Investment, inflation, and the role of internal information systems as a transmission channel12
Do Managers learn from institutional investors through direct interactions?12
Institutional investors, climate disclosure, and carbon emissions11
Vocal delivery quality in earnings conference calls11
Causality redux: The evolution of empirical methods in accounting research and the growth of quasi-experiments10
Preference dynamics and risk-taking incentives10
The unicorn quest: Deriving empirical predictions from theory10
Financial reporting and disclosure practices in China10
Contemporary insights on corporate guidance: A discussion of Call, Hribar, Skinner, and Volant (2024)10
How do consumers use ESG disclosure? Evidence from a randomized field experiment with everyday product purchases10
Do signatory auditors with tax expertise facilitate or curb tax aggressiveness?10
Editorial Board9
The asset pricing and real implications of relationship intensity disclosure9
Employee responses to CEO activism9
Importing activists: Determinants and consequences of increased cross-border shareholder activism8
Parallels between structural estimation and causal inference: A discussion of Armstrong et al. (2022)8
Tax-loss harvesting with cryptocurrencies8
The role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) information in supply-chain contracting: Evidence from the expansion of CSR rating coverage8
Do tax-based proprietary costs discourage public listing?8
Acknowledgement7
Disclosure regulation, cost of capital, and firm values7
Executive compensation, individual-level tax rates, and insider trading profits7
Accounting information and risk shifting with asymmetrically informed creditors7
Public environmental enforcement and private lender monitoring: Evidence from environmental covenants7
With a Grain of Salt: Investor Reactions to Uncertain News and (Non)disclosure7
Partisan regulatory actions: Evidence from the SEC6
Conflicts of interest in subscriber-paid credit ratings6
Acknowledgement6
Signaling innovation: The nontax benefits of claiming R&D tax credits6
Data visualization in 10-K filings6
Antitrust risk and voluntary M&A disclosure5
Political euphoria and corporate disclosures: An investigation of CEO partisan alignment with the president of the United States5
The effect of bond market transparency on bank loan contracting5
Real effects of proposed scope 3 disclosures5
The SEC's September spike: Regulatory inconsistency within the fiscal year5
Capital-market effects of tipper-tippee insider trading law: Evidence from the Newman ruling5
Mandatory disclosure of investors’ fossil fuel holdings5
Equity-based compensation and the timing of share repurchases: the role of the corporate calendar5
Social media livestreaming: Investor information or persuasion?5
The impact of generative AI on information processing: Evidence from the ban of ChatGPT in Italy5
Political costs and strategic corporate communication5
Dividend taxes and investment efficiency: Evidence from the 2003 U.S. personal taxation reform5
Executive compensation: The trend toward one-size-fits-all4
The spillover effect of public firm audit regulation on private firm auditing: Evidence from common partners4
SEC scrutiny and corporate risk-taking4
Firm-level political risk and credit markets4
Does taxpayer assistance encourage entrepreneurship?4
Editorial Board4
Public firm disclosures and the market for innovation4
Ideology-driven social media opinions and capital markets: Evidence from polarizing boycotts4
The wisdom of crowds and the market's response to earnings news: Evidence using the geographic dispersion of investors4
Early-life experience and CEOs’ reactions to COVID-194
Mandatory financial information disclosure and credit ratings4
Discussion of 'Private firms and the economic role of accounting: A review of empirical research'4
Mandatory disclosures and opportunism: Evidence from repurchases4
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