Harrison Hong

Professor
Finance
Aalto University
Finland

Biography

Harrison Hong is Professor of Economics at Columbia University. He was previously the John Scully ’66 Professor of Economics and Finance at Princeton University until July 2016. He received his B.A. in economics and statistics with highest distinction from the University of California at Berkeley in 1992 and his Ph.D. in economics from M.I.T. in 1997. His work has covered diverse topics, including behavioral finance and market efficiency, agency and biased decisions, organizational diseconomies and performance, social interaction and investor behavior, and social responsibility and the stock market In 2009, he was awarded the Fischer Black Prize, given once every two years to the best American finance economist under the age of 40. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and currently an editor of the International Journal of Central Banking. He has been an associate editor at the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Intermediation and a Director of the American Finance Association.

Research Intrest

Finance

List of Publications
“Trading and Returns under Periodic Market Closures,” (with Jiang Wang), Journal of Finance 55 (2000), 297-354.
“Bad News Travels Slowly: Size, Analyst Coverage and the Profitability of Momentum Strategies,” (with Terence Lim and Jeremy C. Stein), Journal of Finance 55 (2000), 265-296.
“A Unified Theory of Underreaction, Momentum Trading and Overreaction in Asset Markets,” (with Jeremy C. Stein), Journal of Finance 54 (1999), 2143-2184. Reprinted in Behavioral Finance, edited by H. Shefrin. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2000.

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