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Chen, Hui

Associate Professor of Finance
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

hchen2@saif.sjtu.edu.cn

Educational Background

Professor Chen holds a BA in economics and finance from Sun Yat-Sen University, an MS in mathematics from the University of Michigan, and a PhD in finance from the University of Chicago.

Experience

Honors / Achievements

Professor Chen’ research focuses on asset pricing and its connections with corporate finance. Chen is particularly interested in the interactions between the macro economy and credit risk, liquidity, financing, investment decisions. His recent research projects include application of business cycle models to explain corporate financing behavior and corporate bond pricing, as well as measuring how constrained financial intermediaries are through their exposures in the index option market. His work has appeared in many leading academic journals in economics and finance, and he is the recipient of the Smith Breeden Prize in 2011, among other scholarly awards. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, and the Journal of Banking and Finance.

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Publication

  • Harrison Hong, Leonard Kostovetsky (2012), Red and blue investing: Values and finance, Journal of Financial Economics.

    Jeffrey D. Kubikb, Harrison Hong, Tal Fishmanc (2012), Do arbitrageurs amplify economic shocks? Journal of Financial Economics.

    Harrison Hong, Marcin Kacperczyk (2010), Competition and Bias, The Quarterly Journal of Economics.

    Harrison Hong, Jialin Yu (2009), Gone Fishin’: Seasonality in Trading Activity and Asset Prices, Journal of Financial Markets.

    Harrison Hong, Marcin Kacperczyk (2009), The Price of Sin: The Effects of Social Norms on Stock Markets, Journal of Financial Economics.

    Harrison Hong, Jiang Wang, Jialin Yu (2008), Firms as Buyers of Last Resort, Journal of Financial Economics.

    Harrison Hong,Jose Scheinkman and Wei Xiong (2008), Advisors and Asset Prices: A Model of the Origins of Bubbles, journal of Financial Economics.

    Harrison Hong, Jeffrey D. Kubik and Jeremy C. Stein (2008), The Only Game in Town: The Stock Price Consequences of Local Bias,Journal of Financial Economics.

    Harrison Hong,Walter Torous, Rossen Valkanov (2007), Do Industries Lead Stock Markets? Journal of Financial Economics.

    Harrison Hong, Jeremy C. Stein, Jialin Yu (2007), Simple Forecasts and Paradigm Shifts, Journal of Finance.

    Harrison Hong, Jeremy C. Stein(2007), Disagreement and the Stock Market, Journal of Economic Perspectives.

    Harrison Hong, Jose Scheinkman, Wei Xiong (2006), Asset Float and Speculative Bubbles, Journal of Finance.

    Harrison Hong, Jeffrey D. Kubik, Jeremy C. Stein (2005), Thy Neighbor’s Portfolio: Word-of-Mouth Effects in the Holdings and Trades of Money ManagersJournal of Finance, Journal of Finance.

    Harrison Hong, Jeffrey D. Kubik, Jeremy C. Stein (2004), Social Interaction and Stock Market Participation, Journal of Finance.

    Harrison Hong, Ming Huang (2004), Talking up Liquidity: Insider Trading and Investor Relations, Journal of Financial Intermediation.

    Harrison Hong, Joseph Chen, Ming Huang, Jeffrey D. Kubik (2004), Does Fund Size Erode Mutual Fund Performance? The Role of Liquidity and Organization, American Economic Review.

    Harrison Hong, Jeffrey D. Kubik (2003), Analyzing the Analysts: Career Concerns and Biased Earnings Forecasts, Journal of Finance.

    Harrison Hong, Jeremy C. Stein (2003), Differences of Opinion, Short-Sales Constraints and Market Crashes, Review of Financial Studies.

    Harrison Hong, Sven Rady (2002), Straegic Trading and Learning about Liquidity, Journal of Financial Markets.

    Harrison Hong, Joseph Chen and Jeremy C.Stein (2002), Breadth of Ownership and Stock Returns, Journal of Financial Economics.

    Harrison Hong, Joseph Chen and Jeremy C. Stein (2001), Forecasting Crashes: Trading Volume, Past Returns and Conditional Skewness in Stock Prices, Journal of Financial Economics.

    Harrison Hong, Jeremy C. Stein (2000), A Unified Theory of Underreaction, Momentum Trading and Overreaction in Asset Markets,Reprinted in Behavioral Finance.

    Harrison Hong, Terence Lim and Jeremy C. Stein (2000), Bad News Travels Slowly: Size, Analyst Coverage and the Profitability of Momentum Strategies, Journal of Finance.

    Harrison Hong, Jiang Wang (2000), Trading and Returns under Periodic Market Closures, Journal of Finance.

    Harrison Hong, Nill (2000), A Model of Returns and Trading in Futures Markets, Journal of Finance.

    Harrison Hong, Jeffrey D. Kubik, Amit Solomon (2000), Security Analysts’ Career Concerns and Herding of Earnings Forecasts, Rand Journal of Economics.

    Harrison Hong, Jeremy C. Stein (1999), A Unified Theory of Underreaction, Momentum Trading and Overreaction in Asset Markets,Journal of Finance.