2026 Joshua Livnat: Business and Management Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Business and Management	37	1939	1817	797	731	119	7979
Economics and Finance	37	2647	2396	1476	1298	119	7979

Overview

Joshua Livnat is affiliated with New York University in the United States and specializes in the field of Business, Management and Accounting. Their research primarily focuses on auditing, earnings management, governance, corporate finance, financial markets, and investment strategies.

The scientist has contributed substantially to several subfields, including:

Accounting
Finance
Economics and Econometrics
Management Science and Operations Research
Management Information Systems

Livnat's research topics cover a range of themes such as:

Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance
Corporate Finance and Governance
Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
Accounting and Organizational Management
Financial Reporting and Valuation Research
Gender Diversity and Inequality
Housing Market and Economics

Their recent notable publications include the following papers:

Board tenure and firm performance, 2020, Global Finance Journal
Critical Audit Matters: Possible Market Misinterpretation, 2022, Auditing A Journal of Practice & Theory
A New Uncertainty Measure-CAM, 2020, The Journal of Investing
Market reaction to quantitative and qualitative order backlog disclosures, 2021, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy
Are Critical Audit Matters Informative?, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal

Joshua Livnat frequently collaborates with researchers such as:

Kate Suslava
Julia Klevak
Duo Pei
Dan Segal
Amir Rubin

Publications by Livnat appear in a variety of venues, with multiple contributions to:

SSRN Electronic Journal
The Journal of Investing
Journal of Accounting and Public Policy
The Journal of Portfolio Management
Global Finance Journal

Best Publications

Comparing the Post–Earnings Announcement Drift for Surprises Calculated from Analyst and Time Series Forecasts

Joshua Livnat;Richard R. Mendenhall

832
Citations
Management’s tone change, post earnings announcement drift and accruals

Ronen Feldman;Suresh Govindaraj;Joshua Livnat;Benjamin Segal

812
Citations
Diversification strategies, business cycles and economic performance

Raphael Amit;Joshua Livnat

595
Citations
The incremental information content of cash-flow components

Joshua Livnat;Paul Zarowin

547
Citations
Revenue surprises and stock returns

Narasimhan Jegadeesh;Joshua Livnat

457
Citations
Differential Market Reactions to Revenue and Expense Surprises

Yonca Ertimur;Joshua Livnat;Minna Martikainen

436
Citations
The new Form 8-K disclosures

Alina Lerman;Joshua Livnat

273
Citations
Option Prices Leading Equity Prices: Do Option Traders Have an Information Advantage?

Wen Jin;Joshua Livnat;Yuan Zhang

267
Citations
Diversification and the Risk-Return Trade-off

Raphael Amit;Joshua Livnat

260
Citations
The Impact of Earnings on the Pricing of Credit Default Swaps

Jeffrey L. Callen;Joshua Livnat;Dan Segal

251
Citations
Information interpretation or information discovery: which role of analysts do investors value more?

Joshua Livnat;Yuan Zhang

202
Citations
System for combined pool portfolio

Kenneth S. Hackel;Joshua Livnat

187
Citations
Accounting Restatements: Are They Always Bad News for Investors?

Jeffrey L. Callen;Joshua Livnat;Dan Segal

180
Citations
The Economic Value of the R&D Intangible Asset

Marta Ballester;Manuel Garcia-Ayuso;Joshua Livnat

166
Citations
Management's Tone Change, Post Earnings Announcement Drift and Accruals

Ronen Feldman;Suresh Govindaraj;Joshua Livnat;Benjamin Segal

133
Citations
Reevaluation of Revaluations: A Cross‐Country Examination of the Motives and Effects on Future Performance

Benzion Barlev;Dov Fried;Joshua Rene Haddad;Joshua Livnat

128
Citations
Post-Earnings-Announcement Drift: The Role of Revenue Surprises

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110
Citations
The Information Content of SEC Filings and Information Environment: A Variance Decomposition Analysis

Jeffrey L. Callen;Joshua Livnat;Dan Segal

98
Citations
Integrating ESG in Portfolio Construction

Roy Henriksson;Joshua Livnat;Patrick Pfeifer;Margaret Stumpp

97
Citations
Labor Costs and Investments in Human Capital

Marta Ballester;Joshua Livnat;Nishi Sinha

85
Citations
Auditor Selection: An Incentive-Signalling Approach

Sasson Bar-Yosef;Joshua Livnat

77
Citations
Modeling dividends, earnings, and book value equity: An empirical investigation of the ohlson valuation dynamics

Sasson Bar-Yosef;Jeffrey L. Callen;Joshua Livnat

76
Citations
Post-Earnings-Announcement Drift: The Role of Revenue Surprises and Earnings Persistence

Joshua Livnat

11
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ronen Feldman Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Jeffrey L. Callen University of Toronto

Gavin J. D. Smith Duke NUS Graduate Medical School

Stephen G. Ryan New York University

Narasimhan Jegadeesh Emory University

Reuben R. McDaniel The University of Texas at Austin

Baruch Lev New York University

James A. Ohlson Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Scott A. Richardson London Business School

External Links

Personal website of Joshua Livnat Google Scholar page

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