2026 Michelle Hanlon: 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	49	1016	946	442	404	98	21376
Economics and Finance	49	1398	1243	849	736	100	21391

Overview

Michelle Hanlon is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has established a body of research primarily in the fields of Business, Management and Accounting as well as Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Their work covers topics including Corporate Taxation and Avoidance, Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance, and Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies.

Their recent publications include:

"Behavioral Economics of Accounting: A Review of Archival Research on Individual Decision Makers*" (2021, Contemporary Accounting Research)
"Behavioral Economics of Accounting: A Review of Archival Research on Individual Decision Makers" (2021, SSRN Electronic Journal)
"Insights into auditor public oversight boards: Whether, how, and why they "work"" (2022, Journal of Accounting and Economics)
"Insights into Auditor Public Oversight Boards: Whether, How, and Why they 'Work'" (2020, SSRN Electronic Journal)
"CEO Tax Effects on Acquisition Structure and Value" (2020, The Accounting Review)

Michelle Hanlon frequently publishes in several academic venues, with notable recurrent contributions to:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Journal of Accounting and Economics
The Accounting Review
National Tax Journal
Contemporary Accounting Research

Coauthorship is also a significant aspect of their research output. Frequent collaborators include:

Nemit Shroff
Shane Heitzman
John E. Core
Kelvin Yeung
Luo Zuo

Their research is concentrated in multiple subfields, such as:

Accounting
Economics and Econometrics
Safety Research
Finance
Sociology and Political Science

The main topics that Hanlon explores relate to Corporate Taxation and Avoidance, covering 28 publications, followed by Auditing, Earnings Management, and Governance with 20 publications. Other significant areas include Taxation and Compliance Studies, Corporate Finance and Governance, Taxation and Legal Issues, and Financial Markets and Investment Strategies.

Throughout their career, Michelle Hanlon has contributed to the academic understanding of taxation effects, behavioral economics applied to accounting, and governance mechanisms such as auditor public oversight boards. Their combined focus on archival research and behavioral economics reflects an interdisciplinary approach to accounting and finance topics.

Best Publications

A review of tax research

Michelle Hanlon;Shane Heitzman

4375
Citations
Long‐Run Corporate Tax Avoidance

Scott D. Dyreng;Michelle Hanlon;Edward L. Maydew

2986
Citations
The Effects of Executives on Corporate Tax Avoidance

Scott D. Dyreng;Michelle Hanlon;Edward L. Maydew

2051
Citations
What does tax aggressiveness signal? Evidence from stock price reactions to news about tax shelter involvement

Michelle Hanlon;Joel Slemrod

1665
Citations
The Persistence and Pricing of Earnings, Accruals, and Cash Flows When Firms Have Large Book‐Tax Differences

Michelle Lee Hanlon

1493
Citations
Incentives for Tax Planning and Avoidance: Evidence from the Field

John R. Graham;Michelle Hanlon;Terry Shevlin;Nemit Shroff

1267
Citations
Is There a Link between Executive Equity Incentives and Accounting Fraud

Merle Erickson;Michelle Hanlon;Edward L. Maydew

958
Citations
Are executive stock options associated with future earnings

Michelle Hanlon;Shivaram Rajgopal;Terry Shevlin

563
Citations
What Can We Infer about a Firm's Taxable Income from Its Financial Statements?

Michelle Hanlon

550
Citations
How Much Will Firms Pay for Earnings That Do Not Exist? Evidence of Taxes Paid on Allegedly Fraudulent Earnings

Merle Erickson;Michelle Hanlon;Edward L. Maydew

549
Citations
Changes in corporate effective tax rates over the past 25 years

Scott D. Dyreng;Michelle Hanlon;Edward L. Maydew;Jacob R. Thornock

515
Citations
Evidence for the Possible Information Loss of Conforming Book Income and Taxable Income

Michelle Hanlon;Stacie Kelley Laplante;Terry Shevlin

445
Citations
A Review of Tax Research

Michelle Hanlon;Shane Heitzman

425
Citations
An unintended consequence of book-tax conformity: A loss of earnings informativeness

Michelle Hanlon;Edward L. Maydew;Terry Shevlin

348
Citations
Real Effects of Accounting Rules: Evidence from Multinational Firms’ Investment Location and Profit Repatriation Decisions

John R. Graham;Michelle Hanlon;Terry Shevlin

333
Citations
The taxman cometh: Does tax uncertainty affect corporate cash holdings?

Michelle Hanlon;Edward L. Maydew;Daniel Saavedra

302
Citations
The Effect of Tax Authority Monitoring and Enforcement on Financial Reporting Quality

Michelle Hanlon;Jeffrey L. Hoopes;Nemit Shroff

281
Citations
Long-Run Corporate Tax Avoidance

Scott D. Dyreng;Michelle Hanlon;Edward L. Maydew

273
Citations
Book-Tax Conformity for Corporate Income: An Introduction to the Issues

Michelle Hanlon;Terry Shevlin

261
Citations
What do firms do when dividend tax rates change? An examination of alternative payout responses

Michelle Hanlon;Jeffrey L. Hoopes

233
Citations
An Empirical Examination of Corporate Tax Noncompliance

Michelle Hanlon;Lillian Fawn Mills;Joel Slemrod

231
Citations
When Does Tax Avoidance Result in Tax Uncertainty

Scott D. Dyreng;Michelle Hanlon;Edward L. Maydew

210
Citations
The Persistence and Pricing of Earnings, Accruals, and Cash Flows When Firms Have Large Book-Tax Differences

Michelle Hanlon

169
Citations
Is There a Link Between Executive Equity Incentives and Accounting Fraud

Merle Erickson;Michelle Hanlon;Edward L. Maydew

149
Citations
Evidence on the Possible Information Loss of Conforming Book Income and Taxable Income

Michelle Hanlon;Stacie Kelley Laplante;Terry J. Shevlin

120
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Terry J. Shevlin University of California, Irvine

Edward L. Maydew University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

John R. Graham Duke University

Joel Slemrod University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Lillian F. Mills The University of Texas at Austin

Shivaram Rajgopal Columbia University

Gopal V. Krishnan Bentley University

Ross L. Watts MIT

Douglas J. Skinner University of Chicago

Anne Beatty The Ohio State University

External Links

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