HUI CHEN Department of Business Administration University of Zurich Plattenstrasse 14, Zurich 8032 Switzerland Tel: + 41 44 634 5178 E-mail: hui.chen@business.uzh.ch ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS - Assistant Professor of Accounting (Tenure track), University of Zurich (2014-present) - Assistant Professor of Accounting, University of Colorado at Boulder (2007-2014) - Visiting Assistant Professor of Management, Vanderbilt University (2006-2007) EDUCATION - Ph.D. - Accounting, The University of Tennessee in Knoxville (2005) - Visiting Research Student - Accounting, Stanford University (2004) - M.B.A. - Finance, Stuttgart Institute of Management and Technology (2001) - B.A. - English, Northeast Normal University, China (1994) RESEARCH INTERESTS - Accounting and product market competition - Accounting and regulation - Executive contracts and incentive issues - Corporate political activity TEACHING INTERESTS - Financial accounting and reporting - Managerial accounting - Financial statement analysis - Accounting theory PUBLICATIONS 1. The Effect of Agency Problems on Optimal Operating Leverage and Social Welfare, Forthcoming, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. 2. Pay-Performance Sensitivity before and after SOX," with Debra Jeter and Ya-wen Yang, third round revision, Forthcoming, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. 1
3. Corporate Lobbying and Financial Performance, with David Parsley and Ya-Wen Yang, Forthcoming, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. 4. "Do Regulatory Policies on Auditing Affect Executive Pay?" with Debra Jeter and Ya- Wen Yang, 2013, International Journal of Accounting Auditing and Performance Evaluation 9, 344-364. 5. Decentralization, Transfer Pricing and Tacit Collusion, with Mike Shor, 2009, Contemporary Accounting Research, 26 (2): 581-604. 6. The Role of Auditing and Internal Controls in Buyer-Supplier Relations, with Debra Jeter, 2008, Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics, 1-18. 7. Pay-Performance Sensitivity in a Heterogeneous Managerial Labor Market, with Fei Leng, 2004, Journal of Management Accounting Research, 16, 19-33. WORKING PAPERS 8. Firm Exit Through Bankruptcy - The Effect of Accounting Bias on Product Market Competition, with Bjorn Jorgensen, third revision, Management Science. 9. Inventory Write-downs in the Semiconductor Industry, with Sundaresh Ramnath, Srinivasan Rangan and Steve Rock, second revision, Management Science. 10. Insider Trading and Real Activities Manipulation through Overproduction, with Bjorn Jorgensen 11. Operating Performance Thresholds and Earnings Management Evidence from the Chinese IPO Market, with Jeff Chen, Bo Liu, Gerry Lobo and Kemin Wang 12. Estimation Bias and Monitoring in Clean Development Mechanism Projects, with Naomi Soderstrom and Peter Letmathe. 13. Auditor-provided Lobbying Service and Audit Quality," with Brian Burnett and Katherine Gunny. 14. Return on political investment in the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, with Katherine Gunny and Karthik Ramanna. 15. Profitability and Cost Shifting in Government Procurement Contracts, with Katherine Gunny. WORK IN PROCESS 16. The Silver Lining of Agency Problem Moral Hazard and Imperfect Product Market Competition, With Lin Nan 17. Prediction of Optimal Contract Form for Government Procurement, with Katherine Gunny 18. Cross-holding and Insider Trade, with Bjorn Jorgensen 19. Unpaid Executives in Chinese SOEs, with Wei Luo and Naomi Soderstrom 20. Substitute Insider Trading among Supply Chain Partners INVITED PRESENTATIONS - Financial Accounting and Reporting Mid-year Conference (2015) - London School of Economics and Political Science (2014) 2
- Financial Management Association Conference (2014) - University of Maryland, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy Conference (2014) - University of Zurich (2014) - Jinan University (2013) - University of British Columbia (2013) - Carnegie Mellon University (2013) - University of Miami (2013) - University of Regensburg (2013) - 8 th Accounting Research Workshop, University of Basel (2013) - Financial Accounting and Reporting Mid-year Meeting (2012) - Peking University (2012) - Fudan University (2012) - Colorado State University (2011) - American Accounting Association Annual Conference (2010) - Sun Yat-Sen University (2010) - University of Texas, Austin (2010) - Copenhagen Business School (2009) - University of Oregon (2009) - Vanderbilt University, Financial Market Research Conference (2009) - American Accounting Association Annual Conference (2008) - Hong Kong Polytechnic University Accounting Symposium (2008) - Peking University (2008) - AAA Auditing Section Mid-year Conference (2007) - AAA Management Accounting Section Mid-year Conference (2007) - University of South Carolina (2007) - University of Colorado at Boulder (2007) - University of Utah (2007) - AAA Management Accounting Section Mid-year Conference (2006) - SUNY Buffalo (2005) - Vanderbilt University (2005) - Miami University (2005) - AAA Management Accounting Section Mid-year Conference (2004) - European Accounting Association Doctoral Consortium (2004) INVITED CONFERENCES - University of Alberta Accounting Mini-Conference (2014) - International Symposium on Management Accounting Research (2013) - Carnegie Mellon University Accounting Mini-Conference (2013) - University of Alberta Accounting Research Conference (2013) - Contemporary Accounting Research Conference (2011) - Junior Accounting Theorist Conference (2011) - Carnegie Mellon University Accounting Mini-Conference (2011) - Carnegie Mellon University Accounting Mini-Conference (2010) - Vanderbilt University Financial Market Research Conference (2009) 3
- Chicago-Minnesota Accounting Theory Conference (2009) COURSES TAUGHT - Advanced Financial Accounting (2015, Master s level) - Accounting Seminar on Political Economy of Accounting (2014, Master s level) - Cost Management (2007-2014, Undergraduate Level) - Accounting Theory Seminar (2010, 2014, PhD Level) - Financial Reporting in the U.S.A: U.S. GAPP vs. IFRS (2013, Senior and Master s level) - Managerial Accounting (2006, MBA Level) - Financial Statement Analysis (2006, MBA Level) - Financial Accounting (2006, MBA Level) - Principles of Managerial Accounting (2002 and 2004, Undergraduate Level) PhD DISSERTATION COMMITTEES - Abdul Al-Taweel, 2014 (University of Colorado, Boulder) - Nhan Le, 2012 (University of Colorado, Boulder, first placement at Mannheim University) - Brian Burnett, 2011 (University of Colorado, Boulder, first placement at Indiana University) - Jing Li, 2009 (Columbia Business School, first placement at Carnegie Mellon University) SERVICES - Management Accounting Section Best Dissertation Award Committee (2013) - Accounting Division Doctoral Program Advisory Committee (2007-2014) - Center Liaison Committee (2011-2012) - University of Colorado Accounting Workshop Series faculty coordinator (2009-2011) REVIEWER - Journal of Financial Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, American Accounting Association Annual Conference, Management Accounting Section Mid-year Conference (2014) - Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Management Accounting Research, Auditing Section Mid-year Conference (2013) - Financial Management, The Financial Review, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Journal of Economic Policy Reform, Management Accounting Section Mid-year Conference (2012) - Journal of Finance (2011) - Financial Accounting and Reporting Section Mid-year Meeting (2010, 2011) - OR Spectrum (2009) - American Accounting Association Annual Conference (2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011) 4
- Management Accounting Section Mid-year Conference (2006, 2008, 2011) - Auditing Section Conference Mid-year (2007) HONORS AND AWARDS - Sustainability Research Award - Leeds School of Business (2010) - Innovative Teaching Award - Leeds School of Business (2009) - European Accounting Association Doctoral Consortium Fellow (2004) - American Accounting Association Doctoral Consortium Fellow (2003) MEMBERSHIP - American Accounting Association - European Accounting Association - International Association for Accounting Education and Research - American Economics Association - American Political Science Association - American Association for the Advancement of Science LANGUAGES - Chinese mandarin (native) - English (like native) - German (fluent) - French (beginner) 5