Qintao Fan

Associate Professor of Accounting

Affiliations: Accounting, Undergraduate Programs

Email: qfan@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4865

Office: Lillis 374

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Biography:

Qintao Fan is an associate professor in the School of Accounting at the Lundquist College of Business. Her expertise includes incentive compensation, capital budgeting, and earnings management. Her research on these topics has been published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, and The Accounting Review.

Fan received her PhD and MS from Stanford University. Before joining the Lundquist College, Fan was an assistant professor at the University of California at Berkeley and an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Degree History:

PhD, Business Administration (Accounting), Stanford University
MS, Statistics, Stanford University
MA, Economics, University of Maryland at College Park
BA, Economics, Renmin University of China

Previous Positions:

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
University of California, Berkeley

Honors and Awards:

Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2015
Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching, PhD Program, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, 2008
COR Junior Faculty Research Grant, 2004
American Accounting Association Doctoral Consortium Fellow, 2002
Stanford University Graduate Fellowship, 1998–2002

Areas of Expertise

Research Interests:

Earnings management
Incentive compensation and capital budgeting
Information economics
Initial public offerings

Teaching Areas:

Corporate governance
Cost accounting
Doctoral research seminar in accounting
Internal control systems
Managerial accounting
Strategic cost analyses

Current Projects

"Tax Cuts, Investments, and Managerial Entrenchment," with Nicole Johnson and Thomas Pfeiffer, Contemporary Accounting Research, conditionally accepted.
"Contest Schemes and Dynamic Incentive Provision," with Nicole Johnson, Management Science, under third round review.
"Fixed and Variable Tax Expense and the Cost of Equity Capital," with David Guenther and Kaishu Wu, Journal of American Taxation Association, in preparation for second round review.
"Innovation Incentives and Competition for Corporate Resources," with Sunil Dutta, under review.

Publications

Journal Articles:

Fan, Qintao, and Nicole Bastian Johnson. "Contest Schemes and Dynamic Incentive Provision." Management Science, forthcoming.

November 2023

Fan, Qintao, Nicole Bastian Johnson, and Thomas Pfeiffer. "The Impact of Intrafirm Incentive Conflicts on The Interplay between Tax Incidence and Economic Efficiency." Contemporary Accounting Research, forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.1111/1911-3846.12871.

May 2023

Fan, Qintao, and Wei Li. "Leading Indicator Variables and Managerial Incentives in a Dynamic Agency Setting." Review of Accounting Studies 23, no. 4: 1715-1753. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11142-018-9461-3.

December 2018

Dutta, Sunil, and Qintao Fan. "Earnings Management and Dynamic Incentives." Journal of Law, Finance, and Accounting 1, no. 2: 361-394. http://doi.org/10.1561/108.00000009.

December 2016

Dutta, Sunil, and Qintao Fan. "Equilibrium Earnings Management and Managerial Compensation in a Multi-period Agency Setting." Review of Accounting Studies 19, no. 3: 1047-1077. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11142-014-9279-6.

September 2014

Dutta, Sunil, and Qintao Fan. "Incentives for Innovation and Delegated versus Centralized Capital Budgeting." Journal of Accounting and Economics 53, no. 3: 592-611. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacceco.2012.01.003.

June 2012

Fan, Qintao, and Xiao-Jun Zhang. "Accounting Conservatism, Information Aggregation, and the Quality of Financial Reporting." Contemporary Accounting Research 29, no. 1: 38-56. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1911-3846.2011.01069.x.

March 2012

Dutta, Sunil, and Qintao Fan. "Hurdle Rates and Project Development Efforts." The Accounting Review 84, no. 2: 405-432. https://doi.org/10.2308/accr.2009.84.2.405.

March 2009

Fan, Qintao. "Earnings Management and Ownership Retention for Initial Public Offering Firms: Theory and Evidence." The Accounting Review 82, no. 1: 27-64. https://doi.org/10.2308/accr.2007.82.1.27.

January 2007