Tunde Kovacs

836 total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 588 citations indexed

About

Tunde Kovacs is a scholar working on Finance, Accounting and Strategy and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Tunde Kovacs has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 588 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Finance, 20 papers in Accounting and 5 papers in Strategy and Management. Recurrent topics in Tunde Kovacs's work include Corporate Finance and Governance (19 papers), Financial Markets and Investment Strategies (19 papers) and Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance (16 papers). Tunde Kovacs is often cited by papers focused on Corporate Finance and Governance (19 papers), Financial Markets and Investment Strategies (19 papers) and Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance (16 papers). Tunde Kovacs collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and Latvia. Tunde Kovacs's co-authors include Anand Venkateswaran, Olubunmi Faleye, Don M. Autore, Randall S. Billingsley, Vivek Sharma, Irena Hutton, Vivek Singh, Hieu V. Phan, Steven Freund and Nam H. Nguyen and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Banking & Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and Journal of Corporate Finance.

In The Last Decade

Tunde Kovacs

21 papers receiving 569 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Do Better-Connected CEOs Innovate More?
    2014 294 citations Olubunmi Faleye, Tunde Kovacs et al. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Tunde Kovacs United States 9 462 268 170 150 41 24 588
Lars Helge Haß United Kingdom 14 535 1.2× 235 0.9× 188 1.1× 195 1.3× 24 0.6× 42 698
Anastasiya Shamshur United Kingdom 8 390 0.8× 201 0.8× 179 1.1× 149 1.0× 31 0.8× 23 550
Timo Korkeamäki Finland 13 338 0.7× 234 0.9× 145 0.9× 137 0.9× 29 0.7× 40 498
Abhishek Srivastav United Kingdom 6 433 0.9× 215 0.8× 114 0.7× 124 0.8× 20 0.5× 9 512
Wen He Australia 14 590 1.3× 257 1.0× 133 0.8× 263 1.8× 18 0.4× 48 714
Nikolaos Daskalakis Greece 11 511 1.1× 134 0.5× 266 1.6× 124 0.8× 31 0.8× 22 626
Jesus M. Salas United States 14 577 1.2× 178 0.7× 158 0.9× 231 1.5× 35 0.9× 40 708
Ryan H. Peters United States 5 513 1.1× 288 1.1× 339 2.0× 244 1.6× 23 0.6× 7 778
A. Burak Güner United States 5 665 1.4× 267 1.0× 133 0.8× 202 1.3× 17 0.4× 10 777
Tijana Rajkovic United States 5 371 0.8× 136 0.5× 104 0.6× 162 1.1× 25 0.6× 9 462

Countries citing papers authored by Tunde Kovacs

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tunde Kovacs

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Tunde Kovacs. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Tunde Kovacs. The network helps show where Tunde Kovacs may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tunde Kovacs

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Tunde Kovacs. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Tunde Kovacs based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Tunde Kovacs. Tunde Kovacs is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kovacs, Tunde, et al.. (2025). Climate Adaptation Risk and Capital Structure: Evidence From State Climate Adaptation Plans. Financial Management. 54(3). 673–693. 3 indexed citations
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Kovacs, Tunde, et al.. (2024). Cry wolf and it appears: Debt ceiling debates and new corporate bond issues. Finance research letters. 65. 105531–105531. 2 indexed citations
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Freund, Steven, Tunde Kovacs, Nam H. Nguyen, & Hieu V. Phan. (2022). CEO personality traits and debt contracting: Evidence from pilot CEOs. International Review of Financial Analysis. 85. 102450–102450. 8 indexed citations
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Kovacs, Tunde, et al.. (2020). METHODOLOGY OF THE EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS AS A PART OF STRATEGY PLANNING. Annals of Faculty of Economics. 29(1). 461–466. 1 indexed citations
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Freund, Steven, Tunde Kovacs, Nam H. Nguyen, & Hieu V. Phan. (2020). Midair Refueling for Sensation Seeking? Pilot CEOs and Corporate Debt Contracting. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Kovacs, Tunde, Pegaret Pichler, & Yi Shen. (2017). Seeking the Limelight -- Not for All Firms. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations
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Kovacs, Tunde. (2015). Intra‐Industry Information Transfers and the Post‐Earnings Announcement Drift. Contemporary Accounting Research. 33(4). 1549–1575. 20 indexed citations
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Faleye, Olubunmi, Tunde Kovacs, & Anand Venkateswaran. (2014). Do Better-Connected CEOs Innovate More?. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. 49(5-6). 1201–1225. 294 indexed citations breakdown →
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Autore, Don M. & Tunde Kovacs. (2013). Investor recognition and seasoned equity offers. Journal of Corporate Finance. 25. 216–233. 1 indexed citations
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Autore, Don M., Randall S. Billingsley, & Tunde Kovacs. (2011). The 2008 Short Sale Ban: Liquidity, Dispersion of Opinion, and the Cross-Section of Returns of U.S. Financial Stocks. SSRN Electronic Journal. 33 indexed citations
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Autore, Don M., Randall S. Billingsley, & Tunde Kovacs. (2011). The 2008 short sale ban: Liquidity, dispersion of opinion, and the cross-section of returns of US financial stocks. Journal of Banking & Finance. 35(9). 2252–2266. 70 indexed citations
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Autore, Don M., Irena Hutton, & Tunde Kovacs. (2011). Accelerated Equity Offers and Firm Quality. European Financial Management. 17(5). 835–859. 20 indexed citations
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Kovacs, Tunde, et al.. (2011). The investment value of the frequency of analyst recommendation changes for the ordinary investor. Journal of Empirical Finance. 19(1). 94–108. 13 indexed citations
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Autore, Don M., Randall S. Billingsley, & Tunde Kovacs. (2009). Short Sale Constraints, Dispersion of Opinion, and Market Quality: Evidence from the Short Sale Ban on U.S. Financial Stocks. 2 indexed citations
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Autore, Don M. & Tunde Kovacs. (2009). Equity Issues and Temporal Variation in Information Asymmetry. SSRN Electronic Journal. 7 indexed citations
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Autore, Don M., Irena Hutton, & Tunde Kovacs. (2009). Accelerated Equity Offers and Firm Quality. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Autore, Don M. & Tunde Kovacs. (2009). Equity issues and temporal variation in information asymmetry. Journal of Banking & Finance. 34(1). 12–23. 49 indexed citations
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Autore, Don M., Tunde Kovacs, & Vivek Sharma. (2008). Do analyst recommendations reflect shareholder rights?. Journal of Banking & Finance. 33(2). 193–202. 26 indexed citations
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Autore, Don M., Tunde Kovacs, & Vivek Singh. (2008). Do Analyst Recommendations Reflect Shareholder Rights?. SSRN Electronic Journal. 5 indexed citations

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