Trang Nguyen Ha Cu,Chau Le,Hiep Ngoc Luu,The Anh Pham
{"title":"Balancing Stability and Transparency: Macroprudential Policies and Opacity Puzzle in Banking","authors":"Trang Nguyen Ha Cu,Chau Le,Hiep Ngoc Luu,The Anh Pham","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2026.101980","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2026.101980","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501001,"journal":{"name":"The British Accounting Review","volume":"26 1","pages":"101980"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149092953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Hype to Hesitation: Negative Effects of AI Incidents in Crowdfunding","authors":"Yue Han,Wenyao Hu,Heng Emily Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2026.101987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2026.101987","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501001,"journal":{"name":"The British Accounting Review","volume":"42 1","pages":"101987"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149210648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond Compliance: The Impact of Sustainable Water Management Performance on Firm Value amid Global Water Challenges","authors":"Sudipta Bose,Sajal Kumar Dey","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2026.101985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2026.101985","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501001,"journal":{"name":"The British Accounting Review","volume":"87 1","pages":"101985"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149210650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chengliu He,Ying Han Fan,Xinru Yue,Grantley Taylor,Yizao Chen
{"title":"Blockchain Technology Adoption and Audit Pricing: The Influence of External Regulatory Intensity","authors":"Chengliu He,Ying Han Fan,Xinru Yue,Grantley Taylor,Yizao Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2026.101981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2026.101981","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501001,"journal":{"name":"The British Accounting Review","volume":"43 1","pages":"101981"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149092726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Employees’ voluntary disclosure about business outlook and labour hiring efficiency","authors":"Boochun Jung,Yiding Wang,Sijing Wei,Jiarui (Iris) Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2026.101984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2026.101984","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501001,"journal":{"name":"The British Accounting Review","volume":"29 1","pages":"101984"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149151640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Large Language Models as Research Assistants: The Risk of Topic-Overclassification in Financial Disclosure Research","authors":"Anne d'Arcy,Christian Haas,Nicolaus Wallner","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2026.101986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2026.101986","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501001,"journal":{"name":"The British Accounting Review","volume":"34 1","pages":"101986"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149151639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Voice vs. Tone: Measuring Modality Mismatch via Large Audio Language Model","authors":"Qingchong Chen,Xiong Xiong,Yumeng Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2026.101982","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2026.101982","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501001,"journal":{"name":"The British Accounting Review","volume":"53 1","pages":"101982"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149151642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inheriting from Bankrupt Firms? Evidence on Long-term Performance of Local Firms","authors":"Zhexu Ai","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2026.101979","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2026.101979","url":null,"abstract":"I posit an “inheriting process” in which a bankrupt firm positively affects the local economy by releasing a significant number of employees into the regional labor market. I present supporting evidence that local firms benefit from this influx of talent in the long run, especially small local firms. On average, the stock portfolio of adjacent firms outperforms benchmark factors by 17.6% over a five-year period, with small adjacent firms achieving an abnormal return of 40.8% over the same horizon. In addition to superior stock performance, adjacent firms experience a 65% increase in industry-adjusted sales and invest 116% more in industry-adjusted R&D expenditures. Further analysis suggests that these performance gains are consistent with the integration of new employees from the bankrupt firm, particularly those who are highly skilled.","PeriodicalId":501001,"journal":{"name":"The British Accounting Review","volume":"5 1","pages":"101979"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149123499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Earliest-announcer audits, information spillovers, and audit quality","authors":"Joe (Joonghi) Cho, Jongwon Park","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2026.101976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2026.101976","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates whether auditors obtain informational benefits from auditing the earliest announcer in an industry-year, and whether these benefits enhance audit quality in subsequent audits. Because the earliest announcer is the first firm in its industry to report annual earnings, its auditor gains early access to industry-wide signals and validated benchmarks that can inform audits of other clients in the same industry. Using U.S. public firms audited by Big 4 auditors from 2003 to 2021, we find that subsequent clients of the earliest-announcer auditor exhibit higher audit quality than those of other auditors, consistent with auditors leveraging knowledge gained during the earliest announcer's audit. We further show that this spillover effect is attenuated in highly concentrated audit markets, where weaker competitive pressure reduces auditors' incentives to exploit such informational advantages. Overall, this study contributes to research on auditor learning and audit market structure by demonstrating that earliest-announcer audits generate transferable knowledge that improves audit quality, and that market competition shapes auditors' incentives to use this knowledge.","PeriodicalId":501001,"journal":{"name":"The British Accounting Review","volume":"52 1","pages":"101976"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149123503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kai Xing, Zhengyang Lei, Hanxiong Zhang, Fulong Xiao
{"title":"DeepCare: Do artificial intelligence firms safeguard employee rights?","authors":"Kai Xing, Zhengyang Lei, Hanxiong Zhang, Fulong Xiao","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2026.101977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2026.101977","url":null,"abstract":"Dominant accounts of artificial intelligence (AI) emphasise productivity and innovation, but may overlook employee-related organisational and compliance costs. Using US-listed firms classified by their inclusion in AI-focused exchange-traded funds and matched workplace-violation data, we find that AI-intensive firms are associated with more frequent workplace violations and more severe workplace incidents than comparable non-AI firms. Mediation evidence points to greater work intensity as an important channel. We further show that financial capacity is more relevant than conventional governance and regulatory proxies in containing these costs: greater cash-flow flexibility and fewer financing constraints are associated with lower violation frequency, although not lower incident severity. AI-intensive firms also appear more likely to engage in ESG-related misreporting and accrual-based earnings management, suggesting broader reporting and accountability implications. These findings extend existing research by showing that AI-intensive business models may generate employee-related compliance costs that are not captured by prevailing productivity and innovation narratives, and that firms’ financial capacity to absorb operational pressure is central to limiting those costs.","PeriodicalId":501001,"journal":{"name":"The British Accounting Review","volume":"27 1","pages":"101977"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149123504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}