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Gus De Franco

Business, Management and Accounting · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Mid career · publishing since 2004
Auditing, Earnings Management, GovernanceCorporate Finance and GovernanceFinancial Markets and Investment StrategiesFinancial Reporting and Valuation ResearchBanking stability, regulation, efficiency

Publications

60

Citations

2,247

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

22

Publishing since 2004

Research summary
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Gus De Franco studies financial accounting and auditing topics, including how companies disclose information (such as in conference calls and financial statements), how auditors are chosen and how audit quality is affected by various market and legal conditions, and how firms' accounting choices compare to or mimic those of similar companies. Much of the work uses large datasets of corporate disclosures, court and regulatory records, and financial statements to examine questions relevant to investors, auditors, and regulators.

Auditing and audit qualityCorporate financial disclosureFinancial statement comparabilityCredit markets and auditor choiceAccounting and public policy interactions

Publication output peaked around 2019-2020 and has since slowed to about 1-3 papers per year, averaging 1.6 per year over the last five years.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 1.6/year recently
2017: 2 publications172018: 1 publication182019: 6 publications6192020: 5 publications202021: 2 publications212022: 3 publications222023: 3 publications232024: 1 publication242025: 1 publication2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • SSRN Electronic Journal×10
  • Journal of Accounting and Economics×3
  • Management Science×2
  • Auditing A Journal of Practice & Theory×2
  • Journal of Business Finance &amp Accounting×1
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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 20, 2026.

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