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Overview

Paul A. Griffin is a researcher affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, and Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Within these broader areas, Paul A. Griffin's research explores subfields including Accounting, Finance, Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management, and Global and Planetary Change.

The central topics of Paul A. Griffin's research include Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance; Financial Markets and Investment Strategies; Corporate Finance and Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting; Market Dynamics and Volatility; Credit Risk and Financial Regulations; and Sustainable Finance and Green Bonds.

Paul A. Griffin has contributed to various academic publication venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Nature Energy
  • The British Accounting Review
  • Journal of Business Finance & Accounting
  • Review of Accounting Studies

The researcher has coauthored multiple papers with a number of frequent collaborators, including:

  • David H. Lont
  • Estelle Sun
  • Martien Lubberink
  • Hyun A. Hong
  • Ji Woo Ryou

Recent publications by Paul A. Griffin include the following papers:

  • The dark side of CEO social capital: Evidence from real earnings management and future operating performance, 2021, Journal of Corporate Finance
  • Challenges for a climate risk disclosure mandate, 2021, Nature Energy
  • Energy finance must account for extreme weather risk, 2020, Nature Energy
  • The curious case of Canadian corporate emissions valuation, 2020, The British Accounting Review

Best Publications

  • Security analyst superiority relative to univariate time-series models in forecasting quarterly earnings

    Lawrence D. Brown;Robert L. Hagerman;Paul A. Griffin;Mark E. Zmijewski

  • The Relevance to Investors of Greenhouse Gas Emission Disclosures

    Paul A. Griffin;David H. Lont;Estelle Y. Sun

  • An evaluation of alternative proxies for the market's assessment of unexpected earnings☆

    Lawrence D. Brown;Robert L. Hagerman;Paul A. Griffin;Mark E. Zmijewski

  • Got Information? Investor Response to Form 10-K and Form 10-Q EDGAR Filings

    Paul A. Griffin

  • Common Stock Returns and Rating Changes: A Methodological Comparison

    Paul A. Griffin;Antonio Z. Sanvicente

  • The Time-Series Behavior of Quarterly Earnings: Preliminary Evidence

    Paul A. Griffin

  • The incremental information content of replacement cost earnings

    William H. Beaver;Paul A. Griffin;Wayne R. Landsman

  • Going green: Market reaction to CSRwire news releases

    Paul A. Griffin;Yuan Sun

  • Commentaries on Big Data's Importance for Accounting and Auditing

    Paul A. Griffin;Arnold M. Wright

  • A League of Their Own? Financial Analysts' Responses to Restatements and Corrective Disclosures

    Paul A. Griffin

  • COMPETITIVE INFORMATION IN THE STOCK MARKET: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF EARNINGS, DIVIDENDS AND ANALYSTS' FORECASTS†

    Paul A. Griffin

  • Corporate Governance and Audit Fees: Evidence of Countervailing Relations

    Paul A. Griffin;David H. Lont;Yuan Sun

  • Science and the stock market: Investors' recognition of unburnable carbon

    Paul A. Griffin;Amy Myers Jaffe;David H. Lont;Rosa Dominguez-Faus

  • The information content of SEC accounting series release no. 190

    William H. Beaver;Andrew A. Christie;Paul A. Griffin

  • Stock Price Response to News of Securities Fraud Litigation: An Analysis of Sequential and Conditional Information

    Paul A. Griffin;Joseph A. Grundfest;Michael A. Perino

  • An Analysis of Audit Fees Following the Passage of Sarbanes-Oxley

    Paul A. Griffin;David H. Lont

  • Agency Problems and Audit Fees: Further Tests of the Free Cash Flow Hypothesis

    Paul A. Griffin;David H. Lont;Yuan Sun

  • Governance regulatory changes, International Financial Reporting Standards adoption, and New Zealand audit and non-audit fees: empirical evidence

    Paul A. Griffin;David H. Lont;Yuan Sun

  • The Relevance to Investors of Greenhouse Gas Emission Disclosures

    Paul A. Griffin;David H. Lont;Estelle Sun

  • Do Investors Care about Auditor Dismissals and Resignations? What Drives the Response?

    Paul A. Griffin;David H. Lont

  • Got Information? Investor Response to Form 10-K and Form 10-Q EDGAR Filings

    Paul A. Griffin

  • Security Analyst Superiority Relative to Univariate Time-Series Models in Forecasting Quarterly Earnings

    Lawrence D. Brown;Robert Hagerman;Paul A. Griffin;Mark Zmijewski

  • Financial Statement Analysis

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  • Corporate Governance and Audit Fees: Evidence of Countervailing Relations

    Paul A. Griffin;David H. Lont;Estelle Sun

  • Agency Problems and Audit Fees: Further Tests of the Free Cash Flow Hypothesis

    Paul A. Griffin;David H. Lont;Estelle Sun

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeong-Bon Kim
Jeong-Bon Kim City University of Hong Kong
Lawrence D. Brown
Lawrence D. Brown Temple University
William H. Beaver
William H. Beaver Stanford University
Arnold M. Wright
Arnold M. Wright Northeastern University
Wayne R. Landsman
Wayne R. Landsman University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lance J. Dixon
Lance J. Dixon SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Oliver E. Williamson
Oliver E. Williamson University of California, Berkeley

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