Harrison Hong

Harrison Gregory Hong (born September 6, 1970 ) is an American economist .

Career, research and teaching

Hong studied economics and statistics at the University of California, Berkeley , which he in 1992 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in the direction of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology left. There he graduated five years later as a Ph.D. in economics. His thesis entitled "Dynamic Models of Asset Returns and Trading" was supervised by Jeremy C. Stein, who later became a board member of the Federal Reserve System .

From 1997 Hong was first assistant professor and later associate professor of finance at Stanford University . In 2003 he followed a call as a full professor at Princeton University . In 2016 he took over the John R. Eckel Jr. Chair at Columbia University . Between 2009 and 2012 he was a director of the American Finance Association .

In 2009, Hong was the third winner after Raghuram Rajan and Tobias Moskowitz to receive the Fischer Black Prize from the American Finance Association. In 2016 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Stockholm School of Commerce and the Helsinki Aalto University .

Hong's main focus is in the area of ​​finance, particularly behavioral economics and the efficiency of stock markets. Among other things, he dealt with speculative bubbles and stock market crashes, arbitrage , forecast models and the assumption of risk and risk limits at banks and other financial market players.

Web links

• Homepage at Columbia University
• Harrison Hong in the IDEAS database