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66
Citations
36458
World Ranking
556
National Ranking
360

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fischer Black Prize, American Finance Association (AFA)

Overview

Harrison G. Hong is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. Their work spans several subfields, including Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Accounting, Global and Planetary Change, and Soil Science.

Their research topics cover diverse areas such as banking stability, regulation, and efficiency; climate change policy and economics; corporate finance and governance; impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic; housing market and economics; agricultural risk and resilience; and credit risk and financial regulations.

The scientist has contributed to multiple academic venues, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Financial Economics
  • Review of Financial Studies
  • Econometrica
  • Annual Review of Financial Economics

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Harrison G. Hong include:

  • Mitigating Disaster Risks in the Age of Climate Change (2023, Econometrica)
  • Location choice, portfolio choice (2020, Journal of Financial Economics)
  • Implications of Stochastic Transmission Rates for Managing Pandemic Risks (2020, Review of Financial Studies)
  • Corporate Social Responsibility (2023, Annual Review of Financial Economics)
  • The Fundamental Role of Uninsured Depositors in the Regional Banking Crisis (2023, SSRN Electronic Journal)

Harrison G. Hong collaborates frequently with a number of co-authors, notably:

  • Neng Wang
  • Jinqiang Yang
  • Briana Chang
  • Edward P. Shore
  • Jeffrey D. Kubik

Their scholarly contributions focus on topics where economics intersects with risk management, financial regulation, and climate-related issues. These topics reflect a blend of applied and theoretical research aimed at understanding and mitigating economic and environmental risks.

In recognition of their contributions to finance, Harrison G. Hong received the Fischer Black Prize from the American Finance Association in 2009.

Best Publications

  • A Unified Theory of Underreaction, Momentum Trading, and Overreaction in Asset Markets

    Harrison Hong;Jeremy C. Stein

  • Bad News Travels Slowly: Size, Analyst Coverage, and the Profitability of Momentum Strategies

    Harrison Hong;Terence Lim;Jeremy C. Stein

  • The price of sin: The effects of social norms on markets

    Harrison Hong;Marcin Kacperczyk

  • Social Interaction and Stock-Market Participation

    Harrison Hong;Jeffrey D. Kubik;Jeremy C. Stein

  • Forecasting Crashes: Trading Volume, Past Returns and Conditional Skewness in Stock Prices

    Joseph Chen;Harrison Hong;Jeremy C Stein

  • Does Fund Size Erode Mutual Fund Performance? The Role of Liquidity and Organization

    Joseph Chen;Harrison G. Hong;Ming Huang;Jeffrey D Kubik

  • Differences of Opinion, Short-Sales Constraints, and Market Crashes

    Harrison Hong;Jeremy C. Stein

  • Analyzing the Analysts: Career Concerns and Biased Earnings Forecasts

    Harrison Hong;Jeffrey David Kubik

  • Breadth of ownership and stock returns

    Joseph Chen;Harrison Hong;Jeremy C. Stein

  • Security analysts' career concerns and herding of earnings forecasts

    Harrison Hong;Jeffrey D. Kubik;Amit Solomon

  • Thy Neighbor's Portfolio: Word‐of‐Mouth Effects in the Holdings and Trades of Money Managers

    Harrison Hong;Jeffrey D. Kubik;Jeremy C. Stein

  • Disagreement and the Stock Market

    Harrison Hong;Jeremy C. Stein

  • Climate Risks and Market Efficiency

    Harrison Hong;Frank Weikai Li;Jiangmin Xu

  • Red and blue investing: Values and finance

    Harrison Hong;Leonard Kostovetsky

  • A Unified Theory of Underreaction, Momentum Trading and Overreaction in Asset Markets

    Harrison G. Hong;Harrison G. Hong;Jeremy C. Stein;Jeremy C. Stein

  • Financial Constraints on Corporate Goodness

    Harrison Hong;Jeffrey D. Kubik;Jose A. Scheinkman

  • Do industries lead stock markets

    Harrison Hong;Walter N. Torous;Rossen Valkanov

  • Asset Float and Speculative Bubbles

    Harrison Hong;José Scheinkman;Wei Xiong

  • Do Managers Do Good with Other People's Money?

    Ing-Haw Cheng;Harrison Hong;Kelly Shue

  • Security Analysts' Career Concerns and Herding of Earnings Forecasts

    Jeffrey D. Kubik;Amit Solomon;Harrison G. Hong;Harrison G. Hong

  • Climate Finance

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  • What Does Futures Market Interest Tell Us about the Macroeconomy and Asset Prices

    Harrison Hong;Harrison Hong;Motohiro Yogo

  • Bad News Travels Slowly: Size, Analyst Coverage and the Profitability of Momentum Strategies

    Harrison G. Hong;Harrison G. Hong;Terence Lim;Jeremy C. Stein;Jeremy C. Stein

  • The Price of Sin: The Effects of Social Norms on Markets

    Marcin T. Kacperczyk;Marcin T. Kacperczyk;Harrison G. Hong;Harrison G. Hong

  • Thy Neighbor's Portfolio: Word-of-Mouth Effects in the Holdings and Trades of Money Managers

    Jeffrey D. Kubik;Harrison G. Hong;Harrison G. Hong;Jeremy C. Stein;Jeremy C. Stein

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeremy C. Stein
Jeremy C. Stein Harvard University
Jose A. Scheinkman
Jose A. Scheinkman Columbia University
Wei Xiong
Wei Xiong Princeton University
Marcin T. Kacperczyk
Marcin T. Kacperczyk Imperial College London
Motohiro Yogo
Motohiro Yogo Princeton University
Rossen I. Valkanov
Rossen I. Valkanov University of California, San Diego
Samuel Gregory Hanson
Samuel Gregory Hanson Harvard University
Thomas J. Chemmanur
Thomas J. Chemmanur Boston College

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