Luc PAUGAM

Associate Professor

Accounting and Management Control

Biography

Luc Paugam holds a Ph.D. in financial accounting and a MSc in Finance from Université Paris Dauphine. Luc is a former student of ENS Paris-Saclay and a CFA charterholder. His research focuses on issues surrounding financial reporting of M&As (goodwill, intangible assets), corporate whistleblowing, CSR, and bank reporting. Luc has published in several academic journals including Accounting, Organizations & Society, Abacus, Comptabilité Contrôle Audit, Contemporary Accounting Research, European Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Business Law, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, and Strategic Management Journal. Books co-authored by Luc include Brand Valuation (Routledge), Evaluation Financière et Normes IFRS (Economica) and Evaluation Financière de la Marque (Economica). Luc teaches financial accounting in the Grande Ecole and MBA programs. Prior to joining HEC Paris, Luc has been a consultant in corporate finance, an associate professor at ESSEC Business School and a visiting scholar at the University of Houston. Luc is an associate editor of European Accounting Review and a board member of the Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, Accounting and Business Research, Accounting in Europe, Accounting Forum and a member of CFA France. He received the ESSEC foundation teaching award in 2016.

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Scientific articles

Sustainability reporting: Is convergence possible?

Accounting in Europe, Forthcoming, (in coll. with H. STOLOWY)

Competing for narrative authority in capital markets: Activist short sellers vs. financial analysts

Accounting, Organizations and Society, July 2022, vol. 100, n° 101334, (in coll. with H. STOLOWY, Y. GENDRON)

Disclosures about key value drivers in M&A announcement press releases: An exploratory study

Abacus, March 2022, vol. 58, n° 1, pp 62-104, (in coll. with A. FILIP, G. J. LOBO, H. STOLOWY)

Accounting Information in Innovative Small Cap Firms: Evidence from London's Alternative Investment Market

Accounting and Business Research, 2021, vol. 51, n° 4, pp 421-456, (in coll. with A. FILIP, A. GHIO)

Deploying narrative economics to understand financial market dynamics: an analysis of activist short sellers’ rhetoric

Contemporary Accounting Research, Fall 2021, vol. 38, n° 3, pp 1809-1848, (in coll. with H. STOLOWY, Y. GENDRON)

Managerial Discretion to Delay the Recognition of Goodwill Impairment: The Role of Enforcement

Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, January-February 2021, vol. 48, n° 1-2, pp 36-69, (in coll. with A. FILIP, G. J. LOBO)

Implications of the Joint Provision of CSR Assurance and Financial Audit for Auditors’ Assessment of Going Concern Risk

Contemporary Accounting Research, Summer 2020, vol. 37, n° 2, pp 1248-1289, (in coll. with L. DAL MASO, G. J. LOBO, F. MAZZI)

The usefulness of intangible assets' disclosure for financial analysts. Insights from Purchase Price Allocation conditional on deal quality

Comptabilité Contrôle Audit, Septembre 2019, vol. 25, n° 2, pp 5-53, (in coll. with A. JENY, P. ASTOLFI)

Do Investors Actually Value Sustainability Indices? Replication, Development, and New Evidence on CSR visibility

Strategic Management Journal, Septembre 2019, vol. 40, n° 9, pp 1471-1490, (in coll. with R. DURAND, H. STOLOWY)

The Whistleblower: An Important Person in Corporate Life? An Answer from Comparative Law

Journal of Business Law, 2019, vol. 3, pp 167-184, (in coll. with N. STOLOWY, A. LONDERO)

Books

财务报告与分析：一种国际化视角 (Cai wu bao gao yu fen xi: yi zhong guo ji hua shi ye) (Chinese adaptation of “Financial Accounting and Reporting – A Global Persp

CEIBS Publishing 2021 (in coll. with H. STOLOWY, Y. DING)

Financial accounting and reporting - A global perspective

Cengage 2020 (in coll. with H. STOLOWY, Y. DING)

Brand Valuation

Routledge, London 2016 (in coll. with P. ANDRÉ, H. PHILIPPE, R. HARFOUCHE)

Evaluation financière de la marque

Editions Economica 2014 (in coll. with H. PHILIPPE, D. AGUILAR)

Evaluation financière et normes IFRS

Editions Economica 2012 (in coll. with O. RAMOND, J.-F. CASTA, L. BATSCH)

Working papers

Pessimistic Target Prices by Short Sellers

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2021

Deploying Narrative Economics to Understand Financial Market Dynamics: An Analysis of Activist Short Sellers’ Rhetoric

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2020

Managerial Discretion to Delay the Recognition of Goodwill Impairment: The Role of Enforcement

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2020

Do Investors Actually Value Sustainability Indices? Replication, Development, and New Evidence on CSR Visibility

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2019

Implications of the Joint Provision of CSR Assurance and Financial Audit for Auditors’ Assessment of Going Concern Risk

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2019

Building the Legitimacy of Whistleblowers: A Multi-Case Discourse Analysis

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2018

Do Investors Pay Sufficient Attention to Banks’ Unrealized Gains and Losses on Available-for-Sale Securities?

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2018

The Expansion of Non-Financial Reporting: An Exploratory Study

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2018

Empirical Evidence on Earnings Management Strategies and Their Consequences in Innovative Small and Medium Entities

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2017

Non-Additivity in Accounting Valuation: Theory and Applications

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2017

Case Studies

Schneider Electric's Pay-as-you-go Solar Home Systems Fund in Kenya

2021