| Debt covenants and accounting conservatism VV Nikolaev Journal of accounting research 48 (1), 137-176, 2010 | 628 | 2010 |
| Does fair value accounting for non-financial assets pass the market test? HB Christensen, VV Nikolaev Review of Accounting Studies 18, 734-775, 2013 | 542* | 2013 |
| Capital versus performance covenants in debt contracts HB Christensen, VV Nikolaev Journal of Accounting Research 50 (1), 75-116, 2012 | 481 | 2012 |
| Accruals, cash flows, and operating profitability in the cross section of stock returns R Ball, J Gerakos, JT Linnainmaa, V Nikolaev Journal of Financial Economics 121 (1), 28-45, 2016 | 459 | 2016 |
| Deflating profitability R Ball, J Gerakos, JT Linnainmaa, VV Nikolaev Journal of Financial Economics 117 (2), 225-248, 2015 | 369 | 2015 |
| Econometrics of the Basu asymmetric timeliness coefficient and accounting conservatism R Ball, SP Kothari, VV Nikolaev Journal of Accounting Research 51 (5), 1071-1097, 2013 | 366 | 2013 |
| On estimating conditional conservatism R Ball, SP Kothari, VV Nikolaev The Accounting Review 88 (3), 755-787, 2013 | 343 | 2013 |
| Accounting information in financial contracting: The incomplete contract theory perspective HB Christensen, VV Nikolaev, R Wittenberg‐Moerman Journal of accounting research 54 (2), 397-435, 2016 | 328 | 2016 |
| The endogeneity bias in the relation between cost-of-debt capital and corporate disclosure policy V Nikolaev, L Van Lent European Accounting Review 14 (4), 677-724, 2005 | 290 | 2005 |
| Agency theory of overvalued equity as an explanation for the accrual anomaly SP Kothari, E Loutskina, VV Nikolaev CentER Discussion Paper Series, 2006 | 181 | 2006 |
| Scope for renegotiation in private debt contracts VV Nikolaev Journal of Accounting and Economics 65 (2-3), 270-301, 2018 | 153* | 2018 |
| Earnings, retained earnings, and book-to-market in the cross section of expected returns R Ball, J Gerakos, JT Linnainmaa, V Nikolaev Journal of Financial Economics 135 (1), 231-254, 2020 | 145 | 2020 |
| Identifying accounting quality VV Nikolaev Chicago Booth Research Paper, 2018 | 80 | 2018 |
| On earnings and cash flows as predictors of future cash flows R Ball, VV Nikolaev Journal of Accounting and Economics 73 (1), 101430, 2022 | 68 | 2022 |
| Firm-level political risk and credit markets M Gad, V Nikolaev, A Tahoun, L van Lent Journal of Accounting and Economics, 101642, 2023 | 49 | 2023 |
| Disproportional control rights and the governance role of debt A Dey, V Nikolaev, X Wang Management Science 62 (9), 2581-2614, 2016 | 38 | 2016 |
| Expected loan loss provisioning: An empirical model Y Lu, VV Nikolaev The Accounting Review 97 (7), 319-346, 2022 | 36 | 2022 |
| Bloated disclosures: can ChatGPT help investors process information? A Kim, M Muhn, VV Nikolaev Chicago Booth Research Paper, 2023-59, 2024 | 31 | 2024 |
| Financial shocks to lenders and the composition of financial covenants HB Christensen, D Macciocchi, A Morris, VV Nikolaev Journal of Accounting and Economics 73 (1), 101426, 2022 | 25* | 2022 |
| Contracting on GAAP changes: large sample evidence HB Christensen, VV Nikolaev Journal of Accounting Research 55 (5), 1021-1050, 2017 | 24 | 2017 |
