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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board119
Real effects of lagged guidance from prudential regulators on CECL107
Mandatory disclosure and learning from external market participants: Evidence from the JOBS act105
Board risk oversight and environmental and social performance88
The Learning Hypothesis revisited: A discussion of Sani, Shroff and White (2023)79
Does observability of ratings shopping improve ratings quality?78
Calling for transparency: Evidence from a field experiment75
Estimating profitability decomposition frameworks via machine learning: Implications for earnings forecasting and financial statement analysis65
Editorial data56
Information sharing within institutional investor networks50
New accounting standards and the performance of quantitative investors49
Tax incidence in loan pricing45
Meet the press: Survey evidence on financial journalists as information intermediaries40
Retail investors and ESG news39
Non-GAAP earnings and stock price crash risk39
The innovation consequences of judicial efficiency39
A review of China-related accounting research in the past 25 years38
Editorial Board34
Editorial Board33
Editorial Board33
Acknowledgement33
Reflections on the founding of the journal of accounting and economics33
Accounting and innovation: Paths forward for research30
Accounting conservatism and relational contracting30
Towards a design-based approach to accounting research29
Financial statements vs. FinTech: A discussion of Minnis, Sutherland, and Vetter29
Appraisal rights and corporate disclosure during mergers and acquisitions28
Editorial Board28
Institutional trading, news, and accounting anomalies27
Tax enforcement and R&D credits27
Discussion of “Obfuscation in mutual funds”: The role of financial advisers27
Reporting regulation and corporate innovation27
The economic consequences of GASB financial statement disclosure27
Editorial Board27
Who did it matters: Executive equity compensation and financial reporting fraud27
Advertising rivalry and discretionary disclosure26
The benefits of transaction-level data: The case of NielsenIQ scanner data26
Everything changes: A look at sustainable investing and disclosure over time and a discussion of “Institutional investors, climate disclosure, and carbon emissions”26
Aggregate accruals and market returns: The role of aggregate M&A activity25
Product market competition, disclosure framing, and casting in earnings conference calls25
Editorial Board24
Processing inflation news: A discussion of Binz, Ferracuti, and Joos (2023)23
Not just for investors: The role of earnings announcements in guiding job seekers23
Litigation risk and strategic M&A valuations23
The future performance implications of Non-GAAP firms’ investments22
Predictive analytics and centralization of authority22
Contracting in the Dark: The rise of public-side lenders in the syndicated loan market22
Do major corporate customers deter supplier misconduct?21
EDITORIAL DATA21
Editorial Board21
A reexamination of investors' reaction to tax shelter news: Evidence from the Luxembourg tax leaks20
Complexities in utilizing the patent pilot program as shock to judicial efficiency felt by firms20
Assurance level choice, CPA fees, and financial reporting benefits: Inferences from U.S. private firms20
Community membership and reciprocity in lending: Evidence from informal markets20
Comment on Cong et al., “Tax loss harvesting with cryptocurrencies”19
Standing on the shoulders of giants: Financial reporting comparability and knowledge accumulation19
Does transparency about banks’ lending costs lower firms’ borrowing costs? Evidence from India19
Unlikely sabotage: Comment on Bloomfield, Marvão, and Spagnolo19
Strategic complexity in disclosure18
Competence vs. Independence: Auditors' connections with members of their clients’ business community18
Measuring innovation and navigating its unique information issues: A review of the accounting literature on innovation18
Tax havens and reputational costs17
Shall we talk? The role of interactive investor platforms in corporate communication17
Labor supply and M&A in the audit market17
Information uncertainty and organizational design17
Client restatement announcement, audit office human capital investment, and audit quality improvements17
MiFID II unbundling and sell-side analyst research16
Relative performance evaluation, sabotage and collusion16
The effect of patent disclosure quality on innovation16
When does forecasting GAAP earnings entail unreasonable effort?16
Long-term firm gains from short-term managerial focus: Myopia and voluntary disclosures15
Acknowledgement15
Does differential taxation of short-term relative to long-term capital gains affect long-term investment?15
EDITORIAL DATA15
How does shareholder governance affect the cost of borrowing? Evidence from the passage of anti-takeover provisions14
Editorial Board14
Trading of emission allowances and reporting incentives14
EDITORIAL DATA14
Do personal income taxes affect corporate tax-motivated profit shifting?14
Profiting from connections: Do politicians receive stock tips from brokerage houses?14
Cross-border investment, deterrence, and compliance effects of ownership transparency14
EDITORIAL DATA14
Do Managers learn from institutional investors through direct interactions?13
The impact of IP box regimes on the M&A market13
Investment, inflation, and the role of internal information systems as a transmission channel13
The role of accounting information in an era of fake news13
The effects of ratings disclosure by bank regulators13
Pay for prudence13
Distinguishing between recurring and nonrecurring components of earnings using unobserved components modeling13
Vocal delivery quality in earnings conference calls13
Contemporary insights on corporate guidance: A discussion of Call, Hribar, Skinner, and Volant (2024)12
Institutional investors, climate disclosure, and carbon emissions12
An information quality-based explanation for loan loss allowance inadequacy during the 2008 financial crisis12
Preference dynamics and risk-taking incentives12
Are auditors rewarded for low audit quality? The case of auditor lenience in the insurance industry12
Do signatory auditors with tax expertise facilitate or curb tax aggressiveness?12
What's my target? Individual analyst forecasts and last-chance earnings management12
Parallels between structural estimation and causal inference: A discussion of Armstrong et al. (2022)11
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
Financial reporting and disclosure practices in China11
How Do Consumers Use ESG Disclosure? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment with Everyday Product Purchases11
Employee responses to CEO activism10
The role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) information in supply-chain contracting: Evidence from the expansion of CSR rating coverage10
Importing activists: Determinants and consequences of increased cross-border shareholder activism10
Internal governance and outside directors’ connections to non-director executives10
Editorial Data10
Tax-loss harvesting with cryptocurrencies10
The unicorn quest: Deriving empirical predictions from theory10
Do tax-based proprietary costs discourage public listing?10
Accounting information and risk shifting with asymmetrically informed creditors9
Executive compensation, individual-level tax rates, and insider trading profits9
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 filings9
Conflicts of interest in subscriber-paid credit ratings9
Public environmental enforcement and private lender monitoring: Evidence from environmental covenants9
Signaling innovation: The nontax benefits of claiming R&D tax credits8
Acknowledgement8
Acknowledgement8
Partisan regulatory actions: Evidence from the SEC7
Editorial Data7
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 SEC's September spike: Regulatory inconsistency within the fiscal year7
The effect of bond market transparency on bank loan contracting7
Political euphoria and corporate disclosures: An investigation of CEO partisan alignment with the president of the United States7
Dividend taxes and investment efficiency: Evidence from the 2003 U.S. personal taxation reform7
Editorial Board7
Mandatory financial information disclosure and credit ratings6
Executive compensation: The trend toward one-size-fits-all6
Public firm disclosures and the market for innovation6
Equity-based compensation and the timing of share repurchases: the role of the corporate calendar6
The wisdom of crowds and the market's response to earnings news: Evidence using the geographic dispersion of investors6
Early-life experience and CEOs’ reactions to COVID-196
Shareholder monitoring and discretionary disclosure5
Tax accounting research on corporate investment: A discussion of the impact of IP box regimes on the M&A market by Bradley, Ruf, and Robinson (2021)5
Editorial Board5
Engagement in earnings conference calls5
Firm-level political risk and credit markets5
Mandatory disclosures and opportunism: Evidence from repurchases5
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