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Professor John Griffin is the James A. Elkins Centennial Chair in Finance at McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin and a leading expert in Forensic Finance.

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Research Interests

Forensic finance: securities fraud including financial market anomalies, co-movement, hedge fund performance, insider trading, credit rating misreporting, mortgage misreporting, and cryptocurrencies

Structured finance: asset backed securities (ABS), mortgage backed securities (RMBS and CMBS), and collateralized debt obligations (CDO)

International finance: determinants of international returns and diversification, and exchange rate exposure

Institutional investment: investment banking and hedge fund performance