Michael Firth

18.7k citations
224 papers · 13.9k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 61

Impact in

  • Accounting top 0.02%
    • Corporate Finance and Governance
    • Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance
    • Corporate Taxation and Avoidance
    • Working Capital and Financial Performance
  • Finance top 0.1%
    • Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
    • Banking stability, regulation, efficiency

Papers in

    • Corporate Finance and Governance 132
    • Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance 107
    • Corporate Taxation and Avoidance 17
    • Financial Markets and Investment Strategies 57
    • Banking stability, regulation, efficiency 14

Michael Firth

218 papers receiving 12.7k citations

Hit Papers

Trust and the provision of trade credit 2013 · 371 citations
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Peers

Michael Firth
Comparison fields: 5 of 120
  • Accounting 11.3k
  • Finance 4.2k
  • Strategy and Management 4.4k
  • Economics and Econometrics 2.8k
  • General Economics, Econometrics and Finance 635
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1 20172
2
Auditors’ Reporting Conservatism after Regulatory Sanctions: Evidence from China
20140
3 201320
4 20122
5
The Effects of Political Connections and State Ownership on Corporate Litigation in China
20129
6 201110
7
Tax, Financial Reporting, and Tunneling Incentives for Income Shifting: An Empirical Analysis of the Transfer Pricing Behavior of Chinese-Listed Companies
20095
8 20064
9 200619
10
Ownership, Corporate Governance and Top Management Pay in Hong Kong
20053
11
The Dynamic Relation between Stock Returns, Trading Volume, and Volatility
200210
12
The Provision of Non-Audit Services by Accounting Firms to Their Audit Clients
199646
13
Dividend Changes, Abnormal Returns, and Intra-Industry Firm Valuations
199614
14
Determinants of delay in a company's audit report
199512
15 199543
16
Foundation in Accounting
19852
17 1980192
18 19785
19 197691
20
A study of the incidence and impact of capitalisation issues : a report prepared for the Research Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
19741

About Michael Firth

Michael Firth is a scholar working on Accounting, Finance, Strategy and Management, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance and Economics and Econometrics, having authored 224 papers that have together received 13.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Corporate Finance and Governance (132 papers), Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance (107 papers), Financial Markets and Investment Strategies (57 papers), Financial Reporting and Valuation Research (37 papers), Corporate Taxation and Avoidance (17 papers), Banking stability, regulation, efficiency (14 papers), Corruption and Economic Development (13 papers) and Market Dynamics and Volatility (13 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Accounting (11.3k citations), Finance (4.2k citations), Strategy and Management (4.4k citations), Economics and Econometrics (2.8k citations) and General Economics, Econometrics and Finance (635 citations). Michael Firth has collaborated with scholars based in Hong Kong, China and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Oliver M. Rui, Gongmeng Chen, Jeong‐Bon Kim, Richard Chung, Peter M.Y. Fung, Chen-Ta Lin, Sonia M.L. Wong, Wenfeng Wu, Liping Xu and Raymond M. K. Wong. Their work appears in journals such as Accounting and Business Research, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, Journal of Corporate Finance, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal and The Journal of Finance.

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