Nihat Aktas

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
82 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Nihat Aktas is a scholar working on Accounting, Economics and Econometrics and Finance. According to data from OpenAlex, Nihat Aktas has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Accounting, 29 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 26 papers in Finance. Recurrent topics in Nihat Aktas's work include Corporate Finance and Governance (67 papers), Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance (19 papers) and Financial Markets and Investment Strategies (18 papers). Nihat Aktas is often cited by papers focused on Corporate Finance and Governance (67 papers), Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance (19 papers) and Financial Markets and Investment Strategies (18 papers). Nihat Aktas collaborates with scholars based in Germany, France and United States. Nihat Aktas's co-authors include Eric de Bodt, Richard Roll, Dimitris Petmezas, Ettore Croci, Helen Bollaert, Christodoulos Louca, Isabella Karasamani, Panayiotis C. Andreou, Dennis Philip and Muhammad Farooq Ahmad and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Financial Economics, The Economic Journal and Journal of International Business Studies.

In The Last Decade

Nihat Aktas

76 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Is working capital management value-enhancing? Evidence from firm performance and investments

2014 352 citations Nihat Aktas, Ettore Croci et al. Journal of Corporate Finance profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nihat Aktas Germany	20	1.8k	684	629	524	108	82	2.1k
Dimitris Petmezas United Kingdom	19	1.5k 0.9×	607 0.9×	462 0.7×	466 0.9×	74 0.7×	53	1.8k
Jayant R. Kale United States	20	1.9k 1.1×	1.1k 1.6×	741 1.2×	465 0.9×	91 0.8×	61	2.3k
Chris Higson United Kingdom	11	665 0.4×	249 0.4×	393 0.6×	646 1.2×	35 0.3×	21	1.3k
Mai Iskandar‐Datta United States	24	2.2k 1.3×	1.3k 1.9×	485 0.8×	750 1.4×	33 0.3×	59	2.5k
M. P. Narayanan United States	17	1.7k 1.0×	933 1.4×	497 0.8×	697 1.3×	106 1.0×	35	2.0k
Alexander Kempf Germany	22	1.1k 0.6×	1.6k 2.4×	849 1.3×	539 1.0×	163 1.5×	70	2.2k
Yilmaz Gűney United Kingdom	18	915 0.5×	357 0.5×	343 0.5×	384 0.7×	34 0.3×	54	1.2k
Dirk Hackbarth United States	21	1.7k 1.0×	1.5k 2.2×	554 0.9×	557 1.1×	71 0.7×	57	2.2k
Sudip Datta United States	22	2.0k 1.2×	1.2k 1.8×	459 0.7×	700 1.3×	28 0.3×	55	2.4k
Qingbo Yuan Australia	12	1.2k 0.7×	497 0.7×	313 0.5×	382 0.7×	29 0.3×	17	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nihat Aktas

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Ahmad, Muhammad Farooq, et al.. (2023). Board Reforms and M&A Performance: International Evidence. SSRN Electronic Journal.

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Ahmad, Muhammad Farooq, Nihat Aktas, & Ettore Croci. (2023). Climate risk and deployment of corporate resources to working capital. Economics Letters. 224. 111002–111002. 26 indexed citations

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Aktas, Nihat, Ettore Croci, Oguzhan Ozbas, & Dimitris Petmezas. (2021). Executive Compensation and Deployment of Corporate Resources: Evidence from Working Capital. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1(1-2). 43–80. 4 indexed citations

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Ahmad, Muhammad Farooq, Nihat Aktas, Saqib Aziz, & Olivier Bertrand. (2021). Does bilateral trust matter during M&A negotiations? Evidence from cross-border transactions. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Aktas, Nihat, et al.. (2016). Value of Control in Family Firms: Evidence from Mergers and Acquisitions. Multinational Finance Journal. 20(2). 85–126. 10 indexed citations

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Aktas, Nihat, Eric de Bodt, Helen Bollaert, & Richard Roll. (2016). CEO Narcissism and the Takeover Process: From Private Initiation to Deal Completion. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. 51(1). 113–137. 186 indexed citations

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Aktas, Nihat, et al.. (2015). Industry IPOs, growth opportunities, and private target acquisitions. Journal of Corporate Finance. 37. 193–209. 6 indexed citations

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Aktas, Nihat, et al.. (2015). Corporate Governance and Takeover Outcomes. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Aktas, Nihat, Ettore Croci, & Dimitris Petmezas. (2013). Is Working Capital Management Value-Enhancing? Evidence from Firm Performance and Investments. SSRN Electronic Journal. 51 indexed citations

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Aktas, Nihat, et al.. (2011). Market Reactions to European Merger Regulation: A Reexamination of the Protectionism Hypothesis. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations

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Aktas, Nihat, et al.. (2011). The information content of trade credit. Journal of Banking & Finance. 36(5). 1402–1413. 91 indexed citations

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Aktas, Nihat, et al.. (2010). Serial acquirer bidding: An empirical test of the learning hypothesis. Journal of Corporate Finance. 17(1). 18–32. 95 indexed citations

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Aktas, Nihat, et al.. (2008). Do acquisitions and internal growth impact differen tially firm performance. 3 indexed citations

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Aktas, Nihat. (2007). Is European M&A regulation protectionist?. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 2 indexed citations

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Aktas, Nihat, et al.. (2007). Legal insider trading and market efficiency. Journal of Banking & Finance. 32(7). 1379–1392. 83 indexed citations

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Aktas, Nihat, et al.. (2007). Evidence of the Contribution of Legal Insider Trading to Market Efficiency. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Aktas, Nihat, et al.. (2006). Le décollage d'EADS : le point de vue des marchés financiers. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 9(1). 5–34. 1 indexed citations

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Aktas, Nihat, Eric de Bodt, & Richard Roll. (2005). Hubris, Learning, and M&A Decisions. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 6 indexed citations

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Aktas, Nihat, et al.. (2003). Event Study Under Noisy Estimation Period. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations

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Aktas, Nihat, et al.. (2001). The emerging role of the European Commission in mergers and acquisitions monitoring: The Boeing-McDonnell Douglas Case. Digital Access to Libraries. 19 indexed citations

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