2026 Ahsan Habib: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	47	1605	1435	6	6	92	7361

Overview

Ahsan Habib is affiliated with Massey University in New Zealand. Their research contributions mainly lie within the domain of Business, Management and Accounting, with a total of 175 publications in this field. Within these, they have specialized in subfields including Accounting, Strategy and Management, Finance, Economics and Econometrics, and Education.

Their main research topics encompass Corporate Finance and Governance, Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance, Financial Reporting and Valuation Research, Corporate Taxation and Avoidance, Financial Markets and Investment Strategies, Working Capital and Financial Performance, and Taxation and Compliance Studies.

Habib has authored or coauthored several recent papers, among which are the following:

Real earnings management: A review of the international literature, 2022, Accounting and Finance
Product market competition in accounting, finance, and corporate governance: A review of the literature, 2020, International Review of Financial Analysis
Short Selling: A Review of the Literature and Implications for Future Research, 2020, European Accounting Review
Readability of narrative disclosures, and corporate liquidity and payout policies, 2020, International Review of Financial Analysis
The All of Us Research Program: Data quality, utility, and diversity, 2022, Patterns

They frequently publish in several venues, including:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Accounting and Finance
Journal of Accounting Literature
Finance research letters
International Review of Financial Analysis

Collaborations form an essential part of their research. Frequent coauthors include:

Mabel D. Costa
Dinithi Ranasinghe
Mostafa Monzur Hasan
Md. Borhan Uddin Bhuiyan
Haiyan Jiang

Best Publications

Stock price crash risk: review of the empirical literature

Ahsan Habib;Mostafa Monzur Hasan;Haiyan Jiang

414
Citations
Audit firm industry specialization and the audit report lag

Ahsan Habib;Md. Borhan Uddin Bhuiyan

383
Citations
Financial distress, earnings management and market pricing of accruals during the global financial crisis

Ahsan Habib;Borhan Uddin Bhuiyan;Ainul Islam

335
Citations
Firm life cycle, corporate risk‐taking and investor sentiment

Ahsan Habib;Mostafa Monzur Hasan

262
Citations
Corporate life cycle and cost of equity capital.

Mostafa Monzur Hasan;Mostafa Monzur Hasan;Mahmud Hossain;Adrian Cheung;Ahsan Habib

261
Citations
Corporate life cycle, organizational financial resources and corporate social responsibility

Mostafa Monzur Hasan;Ahsan Habib

231
Citations
Risk Committee, Firm Life Cycle, and Market Risk Disclosures

Ahmed Al-Hadi;Mostafa Monzur Hasan;Ahsan Habib

213
Citations
CEO/CFO characteristics and financial reporting quality: A review

Ahsan Habib;Mahmud Hossain

202
Citations
Determinants and consequences of financial distress: review of the empirical literature

Ahsan Habib;Mabel D' Costa;Hedy Jiaying Huang;Md. Borhan Uddin Bhuiyan

200
Citations
Incentive mechanism for peer-to-peer media streaming

A. Habib;J. Chuang

194
Citations
Managerial ability, investment efficiency and stock price crash risk

Ahsan Habib;Mostafa Monzur Hasan

192
Citations
Non‐Audit Service Fees and Financial Reporting Quality: A Meta‐Analysis

Ahsan Habib

175
Citations
Political Connections and Related Party Transactions: Evidence from Indonesia

Ahsan Habib;Abdul Haris Muhammadi;Haiyan Jiang

172
Citations
Corporate governance and the value-relevance of accounting information: evidence from Australia

Ahsan Habib;Istiaq Azim

172
Citations
Ownership concentration, voluntary disclosures and information asymmetry in New Zealand

Haiyan Jiang;Ahsan Habib;Baiding Hu

169
Citations
Service differentiated peer selection: an incentive mechanism for peer-to-peer media streaming

A. Habib;J. Chuang

167
Citations
Corporate life cycle research in accounting, finance and corporate governance: A survey, and directions for future research

Ahsan Habib;Mostafa Monzur Hasan

162
Citations
Determinants of audit report lag: A meta-analysis

Ahsan Habib;Md. Borhan Uddin Bhuiyan;Hedy Jiaying Huang;Muhammad Shahin Miah

160
Citations
A meta‐analysis of the determinants of modified audit opinion decisions

Ahsan Habib

156
Citations
Corporate governance and financial reporting quality in China: A survey of recent evidence

Ahsan Habib;Haiyan Jiang

149
Citations
Business strategy, overvalued equities, and stock price crash risk

Ahsan Habib;Mostafa Monzur Hasan

131
Citations
Political connections, related party transactions, and auditor choice: Evidence from Indonesia ☆

Ahsan Habib;Abdul Haris Muhammadi;Haiyan Jiang

130
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mostafa Monzur Hasan Macquarie University

Bharat Bhargava Purdue University West Lafayette

John Chuang University of California, Berkeley

Dongyan Xu Purdue University West Lafayette

Kenzo Hiraoka University of Yamanashi

Mohamed Hefeeda Simon Fraser University

Sonia Fahmy Purdue University West Lafayette

Mikhail J. Atallah Purdue University West Lafayette

Guorui Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences

Marc D. Abrams Pennsylvania State University

External Links

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