Qintao Fan

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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 Academic Positions:

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

Research/Teaching 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

Bio:

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.

Selected Working Papers Under Review

"Contest Schemes and Dynamic Incentive Provision," with Nicole Johnson, Management Science — in preparation for third round review
"Tax Cuts, Investments, and Managerial Entrenchment," with Nicole Johnson, Contemporary Accounting Research –– in preparation for 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

Research Interests

Incentive Compensation and Capital Budgeting
Information Economics
Earnings Management
Initial Public Offerings

Teaching Areas

Managerial Accounting
Cost Accounting
Strategic Cost Analyses
Internal Control Systems
Corporate Governance
Doctoral Research Seminar in Accounting

Journal Articles

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

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