LauraÌýGriffin

  • Stone Family Faculty Scholar
  • Assistant Professor
  • ACCOUNTING

Biography

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Education

PhD, Accounting, University of Texas at Austin, 2023

MS, Accounting, New York University, 2017

BS, Accounting & Finance, New York University, 2016

Laura (Kettell) Griffin is an Assistant Professor of Accounting in the Leeds School of Business. Her research investigates how investors acquire and process information for trading purposes, with work published in the Journal of Accounting & Economics. Before joining Leeds in 2023, she earned her PhD in Accounting from The University of Texas at Austin. She previously worked in the Mergers and Acquisitions Transaction Services group at Deloitte in New York City. Laura earned both her Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Accounting from New York University.

Research

Research Interests

  • Financial archival
  • Disclosure processing costs
  • Regulation

Publications

  • Griffin, L. & McInnis, J. (2025). Gone But Not Forgotten: Investor Reaction to ‘Excluded’ Recurring Expenses. Journal of Accounting & Economics, 80(1): 1–23.
  • Donelson, D.C., Kettell, L., McInnis, J., & Toynbee, S. (2022). The Need to Validate Exogenous Shocks: Shareholder Derivative Litigation, Universal Demand Laws and Firm Behavior. Journal of Accounting & Economics, 73(1): 1–29.
    • Featured on the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance

Working Papers

  • Regulation and Investor Processing Costs: Evidence from the Hyperlink Mandate (with Nikki Skinner and Sarah Zechman) – Under review at The Accounting Review (3rd round)
  • Why Has PEAD Declined Over Time? The Role of Signal Informativeness (with John McInnis and Wuyang Zhao) – Under review at Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance (2nd round)
  • Search Spillovers: The SEC’s Role in Shaping Information Acquisition (with Jackie Wegner)
  • More than Words? The Informativeness of Mandatory Financial Disclosure over the Past 30 Years (with John McInnis and Urooj Kahn)
  • The Trading Consequences of Automated Information Acquisition (Job market paper)

Service

  • Ad hoc reviewer: Journal of Accounting & Economics, Management Science, Review of Accounting Studies, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting; FARS Mid-Year Meeting; AAA Annual Meeting
  • BCOR‑2203 Lead Instructor (creation of lecture slides, homework, and common exam questions for all sections)

Teaching

Laura teaches BCOR‑2203 Principles of Financial Accounting I at the University of Colorado Boulder.Ìý
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Media, Insights & News

  • – Featured by the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance