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Richard Taffler is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on economics, econometrics, and finance, with additional contributions to business, management, and accounting.

Their work spans several subfields, including accounting, finance, economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, and management science and operations research.

Taffler's research covers diverse topics, particularly in financial markets and investment strategies, corporate finance and governance, market dynamics and volatility, auditing, earnings management and governance, complex systems and time series analysis, stock market forecasting methods, and financial literacy, pension, and retirement analysis.

Frequent publication venues for Taffler include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting
  • Journal of Behavioral Finance
  • Journal of Futures Markets
  • Management Science

The scientist has co-authored multiple papers with colleagues such as Vineet Agarwal, Alok Kumar, Onur Kemal Tosun, Iulia Cioroianu, and Shaen Corbet.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Richard Taffler include:

  • Investor Emotions and the Psychodynamics of Asset Pricing Bubbles: A Chinese Perspective, 2022, Journal of Behavioral Finance
  • Investor emotions and market bubbles, 2024, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting
  • Do corporate insiders trade on future stock price crash risk?, 2020, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting
  • Do enhanced derivative disclosures work? An informational perspective, 2021, Journal of Futures Markets
  • Fund manager conviction and investment performance, 2020, International Review of Financial Analysis

Best Publications

  • Comparing the performance of market-based and accounting-based bankruptcy prediction models

    Vineet Agarwal;Richard J. Taffler

  • The chairman’s statement ‐ A content analysis of discretionary narrative disclosures

    Malcolm Smith;Richard J. Taffler

  • Forecasting Company Failure in the Uk Using Discriminant Analysis and Financial Ratio Data

    R. J. Taffler

  • The Assessment of Company Solvency and Performance using a Statistical Model

    R. J. Taffler

  • Empirical models for the monitoring of UK corporations

    Richard J. Taffler

  • Readability and Understandability: Different Measures of the Textual Complexity of Accounting Narrative

    Malcolm Smith;Richard Taffler

  • Twenty‐five years of the Taffler z‐score model: Does it really have predictive ability?

    Vineet Agarwal;Richard J. Taffler

  • Accounting Information and Analyst Stock Recommendation Decisions: A Content Analysis Approach

    Gaétan Breton;Richard J. Taffler

  • The Audit Report Under Going Concern Uncertainty: An Empirical Analysis

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  • Creative Accounting and Investment Analyst Response

    Richard J. Taffler;Gaetan Breton

  • The Chairman's Statement and Corporate Financial Performance

    Malcolm Smith;Richard Taffler

  • In Denial? Stock Market Underreaction to Going-Concern Audit Report Disclosures

    Richard J. Taffler;Jeffrey Lu;Asad Kausar

  • Phantastic objects and the financial market's sense of reality: a psychoanalytic contribution to the understanding of stock market instability.

    David Tuckett;Richard J. Taffler

  • Are Economically Significant Stock Returns and Trading Volumes Driven by Firm-specific News Releases?

    Paul Ryan;Richard J. Taffler

  • The effect of corporate divestments on shareholder wealth: The UK experience

    K.A. Afshar;R.J. Taffler;P.S. Sudarsanam

  • Financial distress, asset sales, and lender monitoring

    M. Ameziane Lasfer;Puliyur S. Sudarsanam;Richard J. Taffler

  • The Going-Concern Market Anomaly

    Asad Kausar;Richard J. Taffler;Christine Tan

  • Does corporate philanthropy exist?: business giving to the arts in the U.K

    Lance Moir;Richard J. Taffler

  • Does Financial Distress Risk Drive the Momentum Anomaly

    Vineet Agarwal;Richard J. Taffler;Richard J. Taffler

  • Behavioural Bias and Conflicts of Interest in Analyst Stock Recommendations

    Thabang Mokoaleli-Mokoteli;Richard J. Taffler;Vineet Agarwal

  • THE INCREMENTAL EFFECT OF NARRATIVE ACCOUNTING INFORMATION IN CORPORATE ANNUAL REPORTS

    Malcolm Smith;Richard Taffler

  • Auditing the Board: A New Approach to the Measurement of Company Performance

    R.J. Taffler;P.S. Sudarsanam

Frequent Co-Authors

Kose John
Kose John New York University
Alok Kumar
Alok Kumar University of Miami
Moshe A. Milevsky
Moshe A. Milevsky York University
Zvi Bodie
Zvi Bodie Boston University

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