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Overview

Robert Libby is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, with additional work in Economics, Econometrics and Finance.

Their work covers several subfields including Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Management Information Systems, Safety Research, and Management Science and Operations Research. The main topics addressed in their research involve Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance, Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems, Accounting and Organizational Management, Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, Corporate Finance and Governance, Auction Theory and Applications, and Risk Management in Financial Firms.

Robert Libby has published multiple papers in a variety of academic venues. Their publications include:

  • "Can artificial intelligence reduce the effect of independence conflicts on audit firm liability?" (2024, Contemporary Accounting Research)
  • "Artificial Intelligence in Auditing: How Auditor AI Use Can Mitigate Legal Liability" (2025, Current Issues in Auditing)
  • "Can Automation Reduce the Effect of Independence Conflicts on Audit Firm Liability?" (2020, SSRN Electronic Journal)

Other papers connected to similar fields and venues include:

  • "Theory Testing and Process Evidence in Accounting Experiments" (2021, The Accounting Review)
  • "Complexity as a Proxy for Risk when Evaluating Derivative Securities" (2020, SSRN Electronic Journal)

The frequent publication venues where Robert Libby's research appears include the SSRN Electronic Journal, The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Current Issues in Auditing.

Collaborative work has involved a number of co-authors, with the most frequent being Patrick D. Witz. Other collaborators include H. Scott Asay, Ryan Guggenmos, Kathryn Kadous, and Lisa Koonce.

Best Publications

  • Experimental research in financial accounting

    Robert Libby;Robert Bloomfield;Mark W Nelson

  • Determinants of judgment performance in accounting settings: Ability, knowledge, motivation, and environment☆

    Robert Libby;Joan Luft

  • Accounting and human information processing : theory and applications

    Robert Libby

  • Experience and the Ability to Explain Audit Findings

    Robert Libby;David M. Frederick

  • Accounting Ratios and the Prediction of Failure: Some Behavioral Evidence

    Robert Libby

  • Availability and the Generation of Hypotheses in Analytical Review

    Robert Libby

  • Behavioral Models of Risk Taking in Business Decisions: A Survey and Evaluation

    Robert Libby;Peter C. FISHBURNt

  • Tacit Managerial versus Technical Knowledge As Determinants of Audit Expertise in the Field

    Hun-Tong Tan;Robert Libby

  • Member Variation, Recognition of Expertise, and Group Performance

    Robert Libby;Ken T. Trotman;Ian Zimmer

  • Financial Reporting Transparency and Earnings Management

    James E. Hunton;Robert Libby;Cheri L. Mazza

  • Performance of a composite as a function of the number of judges

    Robert Libby;Roger K. Blashfield

  • Incentives, Effort, and the Cognitive Processes Involved in Accounting-Related Judgments

    Robert Libby;Marlys Gascho Lipe

  • Bankers' and Auditors' Perceptions of the Message Communicated by the Audit Report

    Robert Libby

  • Modeling the determinants of audit expertise

    Robert Libby;Hun-Tong Tan

  • Discussion of The Relation between Auditors' Fees for Nonaudit Services and Earnings Management

    William R. Kinney;Robert Libby

  • Expertise and Auditors' Judgments of conjunctive Events

    David M. Frederick;Robert Libby

  • Judgment and decision-making research in accounting and auditing: The role of knowledge and memory in audit judgment

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  • Human information processing research in accounting: The state of the art in 1982

    Robert Libby;Barry L. Lewis

  • Recognition v. Disclosure, Auditor Tolerance for Misstatement, and the Reliability of Stock-Compensation and Lease Information

    Robert Libby;Mark W. Nelson;James E. Hunton

  • Does Mandated Audit Communication Reduce Opportunistic Corrections to Manage Earnings to Forecasts

    Robert Libby;William R. Kinney

  • Self-Serving Attribution Bias, Overconfidence, and the Issuance of Management Forecasts: overconfidence and forecast issuance

    Robert Libby;Kristina Rennekamp

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark W. Nelson
Mark W. Nelson Cornell University
James E. Hunton
James E. Hunton Bentley University
Hun-Tong Tan
Hun-Tong Tan Nanyang Technological University
Robert J. Bloomfield
Robert J. Bloomfield Cornell University
William R. Kinney
William R. Kinney The University of Texas at Austin
Wayne S. DeSarbo
Wayne S. DeSarbo Pennsylvania State University
Ken T. Trotman
Ken T. Trotman University of New South Wales
Charles M.C. Lee
Charles M.C. Lee Stanford University
Lisa Koonce
Lisa Koonce The University of Texas at Austin
Roger K. Blashfield
Roger K. Blashfield Auburn University

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