Richard Taffler

Manchester Business School

Professor of Finance and Accounting

Crawford House

Oxford Road

Manchester M13 9PL

United Kingdom

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1.

Comparing the Performance of Market-Based and Accounting-Based Bankruptcy Prediction Models

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 05 Mar 2007
Vineet Agarwal and Richard Taffler
Cranfield University - School of Management and Manchester Business School
Downloads 1,667 (23,196)
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failure prediction, credit risk, option-pricing models, z-score, bank profitability

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Testing Behavioral Finance Models of Market Under- and Overreaction: Do They Really Work?

CAAA 2006 Annual Conference Paper
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 04 Jan 2006
Asad Kausar and Richard Taffler
American University - Kogod School of Business and Manchester Business School
Downloads 1,661 (23,316)
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finance, under- and overreaction models, limits to arbitrage, going-concern

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A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Dot.Com Stock Valuations

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 06 Mar 2005
David Tuckett and Richard Taffler
University College London - Centre for the Study of Decision-Making Uncertainty and Manchester Business School
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Dot.com stocks, mania, valuation models, psychoanalysis, mental objects

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What Firm-Specific News Releases Drive Economically Significant Stock Returns and Trading Volumes?

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 20 Jun 2002
Paul Ryan and Richard Taffler
King’s College London - Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy and Manchester Business School
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Does Investor Relations Add Value?

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 23 Oct 2010
Xijuan Angel Bellotti, Vineet Agarwal, Elly Nash and Richard Taffler
Middlesex University, Cranfield University - School of Management, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Manchester Business School
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Bankrupt Firms: Who's Buying?

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 19 Mar 2010
Luis Coelho, Kose John and Richard Taffler
University of Algarve, New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and Manchester Business School
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The Impact of Bankruptcy Code on the Value of the Auditor's Going-Concern Opinion to Investors

CAAA 2006 Annual Conference Paper
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 06 Jan 2006
Asad Kausar, Richard Taffler and Christine Tan
American University - Kogod School of Business, Manchester Business School and Baruch College, CUNY
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bankruptcy codes, going concern, international capital markets, international accounting standards

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Cartoon Graphics in the Communication of Accounting Information

CoBAR Working Paper 2000-05
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 23 May 2000
Malcolm Smith, Richard Taffler and Lynda White
University of South Australia - School of Accounting and Information Systems, Manchester Business School and Imperial College
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Understanding the Chinese Stockmarket Bubble: The Role of Emotion

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 23 Oct 2010
Xijuan Angel Bellotti, Richard Taffler and Lin Tian
Middlesex University, Manchester Business School and The People's Bank of China (PBC)
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Anomalous Price Reaction and Differential Stockholder Response to Going-Concern Audit Opinions and Withdrawals

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 09 Mar 2006
Asad Kausar, Richard Taffler and Christine E.L. Tan
American University - Kogod School of Business, Manchester Business School and City University of New York - Baruch College
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Market anomalies, Investor Biases, Limits to arbitrage, Going-concern

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Does the Financial Distress Factor Drive the Momentum Anomaly?

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 05 Mar 2005
Vineet Agarwal and Richard Taffler
Cranfield University - School of Management and Manchester Business School
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Asset pricing, risk factor, momentum, market classification

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Gambling on the Stock Market: The Case of Bankrupt Companies

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 08 Oct 2009
Luis Coelho and Richard Taffler
University of Algarve and Manchester Business School
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bankruptcy, lottery stocks, limits to arbitrage, retail investors, institutional investors, event study

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What Skills Do Star Fund Managers Possess?

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 22 Mar 2009
Li-Wen Chen, Andy T. Adams and Richard Taffler
National Chung Cheng University, University of Edinburgh - Accounting and Finance and Manchester Business School
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Growth-oriented equity mutual funds, Growth timing, Timing skill

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Who's Afraid of the Auditor? Differential Market Reaction to Bad and Good News

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 06 Mar 2005
Asad Kausar, Richard Taffler and Christine E.L. Tan
American University - Kogod School of Business, Manchester Business School and City University of New York - Baruch College
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Market underreaction, going-concern, behavioral finance, limits to arbitrage

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Does the Market Know Better? The Case of Strategic vs. Non-Strategic Bankruptcies

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 21 Mar 2011
Luís M. S. Coelho, Kose John and Richard Taffler
University of Algarve - Faculty of Economics, New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and Manchester Business School
Downloads 227 (285,847)

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Bankruptcy, behavioral biases, information uncertainty, underreaction, overreaction

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Phantastic Objects and the Financial Market's Sense of Reality: A Psychoanalytic Contribution to the Understanding of Stock Market Instability

International Journal of Psychoanal, Vol. 89, No. 2, pp. 389-412, April 2008
Posted: 21 Nov 2012
David Tuckett and Richard Taffler
University College London - Centre for the Study of Decision-Making Uncertainty and Manchester Business School

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

Posted: 21 Oct 2004
Richard Taffler, Junhua Lu and Asad Kausar
Manchester Business School, Standard & Poor's and American University - Kogod School of Business

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Market anomalies, Investor biases, Behavioral finance, Limits to arbitrage