Gilles HILARY Associate Professor Email: acgh@ust.hk PhD 2002 University of Chicago, Chicago, USA MBA December 1994 Cornell University, New York, USA M.A. June 1995 Ecole Superieure de Commerce, Clermont-Ferrand, France DEUG June 1993 Université Mendes-France, Grenoble, France

OTHER QUALIFICATIONS 

• University of Paris - Dauphine
  Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches (French post-doctoral degree) - Finance
   
• D.E.S.C.F. (French accounting qualification)

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Tenured Associate Professor, HKUST, January 2007-present
• Assistant Professor, HKUST, August 2002 - December 2006
• Teaching Assistant, The University of Chicago, 1998-2001
• Auditor, KPMG/EY, 1995 - 1997

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• "How Does Financial Reporting Quality Relate to Investments Efficiency?" Journal of Accounting and Economics, Vol. 48, 2009, pp. 112-131. (with Gary Biddle and Rodrigo Verdi.)
   

• "The Effect of Auditor Quality on Financing Decisions." The Accounting Review, Vol. 84, No. 4, 2009, pp. 1085-1117. (with Xin Chang and Sudipto Dasgupta.)

• "Does Religion Matter in Corporate Decision Making in America?" Journal of Financial Economics 93, 2009, 455-473. (with Kai Wai Hui)

• "Accounting Quality and Firm-level Capital Investment." The Accounting Review, Vol. 81, No. 5, 2006,  963-982. (with Gary Biddle)
   
• "Organized Labor and Information Asymmertry in Financial Markets." The Review of Accounting Studies, Vol. 11, Iss. 4.
   
• "Does Past Success Lead Analysts to Become Overconfident?" Management Science, Vol. 52, No. 4, 489-500 (with Lior Menzly).
   
• "Analyst Coverage and Financing Decisions." Journal of Finance, Vol. 61, Iss 6, 3009-3048.  (with Xin Chang and Sudipto Dasgupta).
   
• "The Credibility of Self-Regulation: Evidence from the Accounting Profession's Peer Review Program." Journal of Accounting and Economics 40, 211-229. (with Clive Lennox). Data

EDITORIAL ACTIVITY

• Ad Hoc Associate Editor - Contemporary Accounting Research, 2009 - present
   
• The Accounting Review's Editorial Board Member, 2009 - present
   
• Contemporary Accounting Research's Editorial Board Member, 2010-2014
   
• Ad Hoc Referee for The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, The International Journal of Accounting, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, the Journal of Banking and Financial Analysis, the Journal of Corporate Finance, The Journal of Finance, The Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting, and Management Science, 2001- present

AWARDS  

• Franklin Prize for Teaching Excellence, (MBA Teaching), 2007
• Elected "Best Professor for Required Courses" by MBA students, 2007
• Franklin Prize for Teaching Excellence (Undergraduate Teaching), 2005
• Wei Lun Fellowship, HKUST, 2002-2004
• Oscar G. Mayer Foundation Fellowship, 2001-2002
• University of Chicago Fellowship, 1997-2001
• SSRN Top Ten download lists, 2001-2008
• Aoki Outstanding Paper Award, 2000