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	Paul Hribar Professor Leonard A. Hadley Professor of Accounting
	Accounting W346  John Pappajohn Bus Bldg The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1994	Ph: 319-335-1008 Fax: 319-335-1956 E-mail: paul-hribar@uiowa.edu

Academic History

• PhD in Accounting, The University of Iowa, 2000
• MSc in Accounting, College of Commerce, University of Saskatchewan, 1995
• BMgt in Accounting, Faculty of Management, University of Lethbridge, 1992

Expertise

• Empirical/Archival Research in Financial Accounting. Specialties include measurement of earnings management using empirical models; accounting-based anomalies; predicting stock returns using accounting data.

Awards

• GREAT teaching award for executive MBA (Des Moines), November 2012
• Dean's Teaching Award, Tippie College of Business, May 2012
• Lloyd J. and Thelma W. Palmer Research Fellow, 2006
• McGladrey Institute Research Fellow, 2006
• Ada Howe Kent Foundation Fellow, Cornell University, 2003
• New Faculty Consortium Fellow, Cornell University, 2001
• Byron R. Ross Award for Teaching Excellence, The University of Iowa, 1998

Selected Publications

• Investor Sentiment and Analyst's Earnings Forecast Errors, Paul Hribar, John McInnis, Management Science, 2012
• Information Asymmetry and Restatement Announcements: Evidence from Informed Trading, Paul Hribar, Brad Badertscher, Nicole Jenkins, Accounting Review, 2011
• Institutional Investors and Accounting Restatements, Paul Hribar, Nicole Jenkins, Juan Wang, 2009
• Making Sense of Cents: An examination of firms that marginally miss or beat analyst forecasts, Paul Hribar, Sanjeev Bhojraj, Marc Picconi, John McInnis, The Journal of Finance, vol 64, 2009, 2361-2388
• The Use of Unsigned Earnings Quality Measures in Tests of Earnings Management, Paul Hribar, D. Craig Nichols, Journal of Accounting Research, vol 45, 2007, 1017-1053
• Stock Repurchases as an Earnings Management Device, Paul Hribar, B. Johnson, N. Jenkins, Journal of Accounting and Economics, vol 41, 2006, 3-27
• CEO Compensation and Incentives: Evidence From M&A Bonuses, Paul Hribar, Yaniv Grinstein, Journal of Financial Economics, vol 73, 2004, 119-144
• The Effect of Accounting Restatements on Earnings Revisions and the Estimated Cost of Capital, Paul Hribar, N. Jenkins, Review of Accounting Studies, vol 9, 2004, 337-356
• A Discussion of Competitive Costs of Disclosure by Biotech IPOs, Paul Hribar, Journal of Accounting Research, vol 42, 2004, 357-364
• Investor Sophistication and the Mispricing of Accruals, Paul Hribar, Daniel W. Collins, Guojin Gong, Review of Accounting Studies, vol 8, 2003, 251-276
• A Discussion of Inventory Changes and Future Returns, Paul Hribar, Review of Accounting Studies, vol 7, 2002, 189-195
• Errors in Estimating Accruals: Implications for Empirical Research, Paul Hribar, D. W. Collins, Journal of Accounting Research, vol 40, 2002, 105-134
• Earnings-based and Accrual-based Anomalies: One Effect or Two?, Paul Hribar, Daniel W. Collins, Journal of Accounting and Economics, vol 29, 2000, 101-123

Working Papers

• Does stock option accounting affect the quality of reported cash flows?, Paul Hribar, Craig Nichols
• A Competing Explanation for Sources of Bias in Earnings-Based Measures of Conditional Conservatism, Daniel W. Collins, Paul Hribar, Xiaoli Tian
• Principles-Based Standards and Earnings Attributes, Richard Mergenthaler, Paul Hribar, David Folsom, Kyle Peterson
• The Confounding Effects of Operating Cash Flow Asymmetric Timeliness on the Earnings-Based Measure of Conditional Conservatism, Daniel W. Collins, Paul Hribar, Xiaoli Tian
• A New Measure of Accounting Quality, Paul Hribar, Todd Kravet, Ryan J. Wilson
• CEO Overconfidence and management earnings forecasts, Paul Hribar, Holly Yang
• Life Cycle, Cost of Capital, Earnings Persistence and Stock Returns, Paul Hribar, Nir Yehuda
• Reconciling Growth and Persistence as explanations for accrual mispricing, Paul Hribar, Nir Yehuda

Prior Positions

• Assistant Professor of Accounting, Johnson Grad School of Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, July 2000 - June 2006

Professional Affiliations

• Editorial Board Member, Contemporary Accounting Research, January 2010 - current
• Editorial Board Member, Review of Accounting Studies, 2006 - current
• Editorial Board Member, The Accouting Review, 2005 - 2007

Presentations

• Investor Sentiment and Analyst Forecast Errors, Florida State University, November 2010
• A New Measure of Accounting Quality, Yale University, October 2010
• A New Measure of Accounting Quality, Dartmouth College, September 2010
• A New Measure of Accounting Quality, Georgetown University, March 2010
• Investor Sentiment and Analyst Forecast Errors, Iowa State University, November 2009
• A New Measure of Accounting Quality, Indiana University, October 2009
• Does conservative stock option accounting lead to aggresive cash flow reporting?, Barclay's Global Investors Research Seminar, Barclay's Global Investors, San Francisco, CA, November 2007
• Does conservative option accounting lead to aggresive cash flow reporting?, Texas A&M University, Texas A&M , Texas A&M , November 2007
• Life Cycle, Cost of Capital, Earnings Persistence and Stock Returns, American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, AAA, Chicago, IL, August 2007
• CEO overconfidence, earnigns forecasts, and earnings management, People & Money Symposium on Behavioral Finance, Depaul University, Chicago, IL, June 2007