About

Richard S. Warr, Ph.D, is a Professor of Finance and the Associate Dean for Faculty and Research in the Poole College of Management at NC State University. He received his Ph.D in Finance from the University of Florida in 1998. His research focuses on information transmission in markets, equity valuation, endogeneity of corporate events such as option listings, short selling, capital structure, and market microstructure. Warr has published in several top finance and accounting journals, including the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Financial Management, and the Journal of Corporate Finance. He served as the Co-Editor of the Financial Review from 2015 to 2021. His teaching areas include investments, portfolio management, and security analysis, and he is a faculty expert on Prediction Markets, Stock Markets, Inflation and Stock Markets, and Investing.

Research topics

• Economics
• Computer Science
• Management
• Accounting
• Econometrics
• Mathematics
• Library science
• Engineering
• Operations research
• Statistics
• Algorithm

Selected publications

• Diversity and innovation

  Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks · 2026-02-19

  book-chapter1st authorCorresponding
  PublisherDOI

• A message from the outgoing editors of The Financial Review

  Financial Review · 2021

  Senior authorCorresponding
  • Computer Science
  • Library science
  • Management
  PublisherDOI

• Why the inflation rate doesn’t tell the whole story – all it takes is a spike in a category like used cars to cause consumer prices to soar

  2021-05-13

  article1st authorCorresponding
  PublisherDOI

• Federal Reserve hopes years of zero rates will spur inflation – but there are risks

  2020-09-17

  article1st authorCorresponding
  PublisherDOI

• Analysts versus time-series forecasts of quarterly earnings: A maintained hypothesis revisited

  Advances in Accounting · 2020 · 15 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
  • Econometrics
  • Economics
  • Statistics
  PublisherDOI

• Issue Information

  Financial Review · 2019-01-06

  paratextOpen access
  PublisherOA PDFDOI

• Stocks hate inflation – here’s why

  2018-02-12

  preprint1st authorCorresponding
  PublisherDOI

• Why does inflation make stock prices fall?

  2018-02-14

  preprint1st authorCorresponding
  PublisherDOI

• Report of the Editors of <i>The Financial Review</i> for 2017

  Financial Review · 2018-07-15

  articleSenior author
  PublisherDOI

• Inflation and equity mutual fund flows

  Journal of Financial Markets · 2017-12-14 · 13 citations

  articleSenior authorCorresponding
  PublisherDOI

Frequent coauthors

• Robert A. Van Ness

  21 shared

• William Elliott

  19 shared

• Bonnie F. Van Ness

  University of Mississippi

  15 shared

• Johanna Koëter-Kant

  Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  8 shared

• Bartley R. Danielsen

  8 shared

• Donald P. Pagach

  7 shared

• Jing Zhao

  Henan Agricultural University

  5 shared

• Benjamin M. Blau

  Utah State University

  4 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Finance

  North Carolina State University

  2000

• M.S., Finance

  University of North Carolina at Charlotte

  1995

• B.S., Finance

  University of North Carolina at Charlotte

  1993

Awards & honors

• Diversity and Innovation (2026)
• Society of Actuaries Monograph (2009)