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Harald Hau is affiliated with the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, and Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Within these domains, their work covers subfields such as Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Strategy and Management, and Management of Technology and Innovation.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including Corporate Finance and Governance, Banking stability, regulation, efficiency, Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis, Intellectual Property and Patents, Innovation Policy and R&D, Private Equity and Venture Capital, and FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance.

Harald Hau's notable recent papers include:

  • FinTech Credit and Entrepreneurial Growth (2021, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • Discriminatory Pricing of Over-the-Counter Derivatives (2021, Management Science)
  • Does Board Overlap Promote Coordination Between Firms? (2021, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • Can Time-Varying Currency Risk Hedging Explain Exchange Rates? (2022, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • Bank Bonus Pay as a Risk Sharing Contract (2022, Review of Financial Studies)

The publications of this scientist are predominantly featured in the following venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Review of Financial Studies
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Management Science
  • The Review of Economics and Statistics

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Heng Geng
  • Roni Michaely
  • Binh Nguyen
  • Yi Huang
  • Leonie Bräuer

Best Publications

  • Location Matters: An Examination of Trading Profits

    Harald Hau

  • Exchange Rates, Equity Prices, and Capital Flows

    Harald Hau;Hélène Rey

  • Can Portfolio Rebalancing Explain the Dynamics of Equity Returns, Equity Flows, and Exchange Rates?

    Harald Hau;Helene Rey

  • Real Exchange Rate Volatility and Economic Openness: Theory and Evidence

    Harald Hau

  • Subprime crisis and board (in-) competence: private versus public banks in Germany

    Harald Hau;Marcel Thum

  • Can Portfolio Rebalancing Explain the Dynamics of Equity Returns, Equity Flows and Exchange Rates?

    Harald Hau;Helene Rey

  • Exchange rate determination: The role of factor price rigidities and nontradeables

    Harald Hau

  • THE ROLE OF TRANSACTION COSTS FOR FINANCIAL VOLATILITY: EVIDENCE FROM THE PARIS BOURSE

    Harald Hau

  • Bank ratings: What determines their quality?

    Harald Hau;Sam Langfield;David Marques-Ibanez

  • Real effects of stock underpricing

    Harald Hau;Harald Hau;Sandy Lai

  • The Role of Equity Funds in the Financial Crisis Propagation

    Harald Hau;Sandy Lai

  • Home Bias at the Fund Level

    Harald Hau;Helene Rey

  • Firm Response to Competitive Shocks: Evidence from China’s Minimum Wage Policy

    Harald Hau;Yi Huang;Gewei Wang

  • Structured debt ratings: Evidence on conflicts of interest

    Matthias Efing;Harald Hau

  • Do Demand Curves for Currencies Slope Down? Evidence from the MSCI Global Index Change

    Harald Hau;Massimo Massa;Joel Peress

  • Asset Allocation and Monetary Policy: Evidence from the Eurozone

    Harald Hau;Harald Hau;Harald Hau;Sandy Lai

  • Global Portfolio Rebalancing Under the Microscope

    Harald Hau;Helene Rey

  • How FinTech enters China's credit market

    Harald Hau;Yi Huang;Hongzhe Shan;Zixia Sheng

  • Exchange Rate, Equity Prices and Capital Flows

    Harald Hau;Hélène Rey;Hélène Rey;Hélène Rey

  • How has the euro Changed the Foreign Exchange Market

    Harald Hau;W.Killeen;Michael Moore

  • Competitive Entry and Endogenous Risk in the Foreign Exchange Market

    Harald Hau

  • Subprime Crisis and Board (In-)Competence: Private vs. Public Banks in Germany

    Harald Hau;Marcel Thum

  • Incentive pay and bank risk-taking: Evidence from Austrian, German, and Swiss banks

    Matthias Efing;Matthias Efing;Harald Hau;Harald Hau;Patrick Kampkötter;Johannes Steinbrecher

  • Can Portfolio Rebalancing Explain the Dynamics of Equity Returns, Equity Flows and Exchange Rates?

    Harald Hau;Hélène Rey;Hélène Rey;Hélène Rey

Frequent Co-Authors

Hélène Rey
Hélène Rey London Business School
Jean-Charles Rochet
Jean-Charles Rochet Toulouse School of Economics
Roni Michaely
Roni Michaely University of Hong Kong
Michael J. Moore
Michael J. Moore Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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