CEFGroup is delighted to announce that Professor Paul Griffin has been appointed as an Honorary Professor within CEFGroup and the Department of Accounting and Finance at the University of Otago.
Professor Griffin (Distinguished Professor, UC Davis) is a leading international authority in accounting, financial information, and disclosures. His recent publications examine the relations between stock prices and greenhouse gas emissions, the informational role of short interest for corporate bond prices, investors’ recognition of unburnable carbon on energy company balance sheets, CSR performance ratings on analysts’ information costs, the effects of social norms on CSR disclosure, and how executive social networks affect earnings management. His current research projects pursue two additional topics of interest: the impact of extreme weather on company stock returns and the required disclosures in response to extreme weather; and the disclosure practices of R&D-intensive firms that may want to restrict disclosure because it is valuable to rivals.
