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Overview

William H. Beaver was affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research spanned the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, and Social Sciences, with a particular focus on subfields such as Accounting, Finance, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their main topics of research included Corporate Finance and Governance, Corporate Insolvency and Governance, Banking stability, regulation, and efficiency, COVID-19 and Mental Health, Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction, Impact of Technology on Adolescents, and Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies.

Throughout their career, William H. Beaver contributed to multiple academic publications with recent papers covering a variety of subjects:

  • "Bankruptcy in groups," 2023, Review of Accounting Studies
  • "A handbook for ending catastrophic biological risks: How the United States can prevent future pandemics and deter biological weapons," 2021, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • "Would a "Gap Year" Help Reduce Mental Illness Among College Students?," 2021, Kappa Delta Pi Record
  • "Is College in Decline?," 2023, Contexts
  • "Sexual Misconduct on Campus: Betsy Devos Had It Right," 2025, Academic Questions

William H. Beaver collaborated frequently with other researchers, including Stefano Cascino, Maria Correia, Maureen F. McNichols, Yong-Bee Lim, and Lillian Parr.

Their work was published in a diverse range of venues, such as:

  • Review of Accounting Studies
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Kappa Delta Pi Record
  • Contexts
  • Academic Questions

Best Publications

  • Financial Ratios As Predictors Of Failure

    William H. Beaver

  • The relevance of the value relevance literature for financial accounting standard setting: another view $

    Mary E Barth;William H Beaver;Wayne R Landsman

  • The Information Content Of Annual Earnings Announcements

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  • The Association Between Market Determined and Accounting Determined Risk Measures

    William Beaver;Paul Kettler;Myron Scholes

  • Relative valuation roles of equity book value and net income as a function of financial health

    Mary E Barth;William H Beaver;Wayne R Landsman

  • Conditional and Unconditional Conservatism:Concepts and Modeling

    William H. Beaver;Stephen G. Ryan

  • The information content of security prices

    William Beaver;Richard Lambert;Dale Morse

  • Discretionary behavior with respect to allowances for loan losses and the behavior of security prices

    William H. Beaver;Ellen E. Engel

  • Biases and Lags in Book Value and Their Effects on the Ability of the Book-to-Market Ratio to Predict Book Return on Equity

    William H. Beaver;Stephen G. RYANt

  • Have Financial Statements Become Less Informative? Evidence from the Ability of Financial Ratios to Predict Bankruptcy

    William H. Beaver;Maureen F. McNichols;Jung-Wu Rhie

  • The Association between Unsystematic Security Returns and the Magnitude of Earnings Forecast Errors

    William H. Beaver;Roger Clarke;William F. Wright

  • Accruals, Cash Flows, and Equity Values

    Mary E. Barth;William H. Beaver;John R. M. Hand;Wayne R. Landsman

  • Financial Reporting, Supplemental Disclosures, and Bank Share Prices

    William Beaver;Carol Eger;Stephen Ryan;Mark Wolfson

  • Value-relevance of banks' fair value disclosures under SFAS no. 107

    Mary E. Barth;William H. Beaver;Wayne R. Landsman

  • Perspectives on Recent Capital Market Research

    William H. Beaver

  • Theory Of Accounting Measurement

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  • Market Prices, Financial Ratios, and the Prediction of Failure

    William H. Beaver

  • The Relevance of the Value Relevance Literature For Financial Accounting Standard Setting: Another View

    Mary E. Barth;William H. Beaver;Wayne R. Landsman

  • Management of the loss reserve accrual and the distribution of earnings in the property-casualty insurance industry ☆

    William H. Beaver;Maureen F. McNichols;Karen K. Nelson

  • The market valuation implications of net periodic pension cost components

    Mary E Barth;William H Beaver;Wayne R Landsman

  • Differential properties in the ratings of certified versus non-certified bond-rating agencies

    William H. Beaver;Catherine Shakespeare;Mark T. Soliman

  • Biases and Lags in Book Value and Their Effects on the Ability of the Book-to-Market Ratio to Predict Book Return on Equity

    William H. Beaver;Stephen G. Ryan

Frequent Co-Authors

Maureen F. McNichols
Maureen F. McNichols Stanford University
Mary E. Barth
Mary E. Barth Stanford University
Wayne R. Landsman
Wayne R. Landsman University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Stephen G. Ryan
Stephen G. Ryan New York University
Paul A. Griffin
Paul A. Griffin University of California, Davis
Mohan Venkatachalam
Mohan Venkatachalam Duke University
Joel S. Demski
Joel S. Demski University of Florida

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