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Brian Williams

Business, Management and Accounting · Indiana University

OpenAlex ORCID
Corporate Taxation and AvoidanceAuditing, Earnings Management, GovernanceTaxation and Compliance StudiesCorporate Finance and GovernanceFinancial Reporting and Valuation Research

Publications

59

Citations

1,550

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

39

Publishing since 1987

Research summary
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Brian Williams studies how companies handle taxes and financial reporting, including corporate tax avoidance, tax evasion, and how businesses use the cash they save from paying less tax. Much of the work examines how tax rules and accounting standards affect corporate behavior, such as innovation and financial reporting decisions, sometimes using data-driven methods like machine learning.

Corporate tax avoidance and evasionFinancial reporting and accounting standardsCorporate governance and management decisionsTax disclosure and prediction methodsEffects of tax law on firm behavior

Publication activity has been uneven over the past decade, with peaks around 2018 and 2021-2023 followed by lower output in the most recent years.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 1.8/year recently
2017: 5 publications172018: 6 publications182019: 4 publications192020: 4 publications202021: 7 publications7212022: 1 publication222023: 6 publications232024: 1 publication242025: 1 publication2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • SSRN Electronic Journal×16
  • The Accounting Review×6
  • Contemporary Accounting Research×3
  • VTechWorks (Virginia Tech)×3
  • Review of Accounting Studies×2

This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 11, 2026.

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