University Education

Ph.D. in Finance, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.

B.A. in Mathematics and Computer Science, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA.  

Curriculum Vitae

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Teaching

FIN 300 Introduction to Managerial Finance
FIN 320 Managerial Finance
FIN 500 Introduction to Corporate Finance

Research Interests

Corporate finance, information economics, contract theory, game theory.

Research Papers

Staged-Financing Contracts with Private Information  (Journal of Financial Intermediation, 2008, Apr., Vol 17, Issue 2)

A Theory of Reputation Acquisition of Stock Analysts (Accepted by the journal of Applied Economics)

Pooling the good and the bad: A re-examination of underwriter analyst recommendations joint with Somnath Das (under review)

Costly Information Transmission in Continuous Time with Implications for Credit Rating Announcements (under review)

Leverage Management  joint with Darrell Duffie and Chenyang Wang (under review)

Perverse Incentives at the Bank? Evidence from a Natural Experiment joint with Sumit Agarwal (under review)
    American Economic Association 2009 paper

Leverage Management in a switching Bull-Bear market joint with Min Dai and Zhou Yang

Forward-looking Satiation and the Variety Seeking Behavior in Consumer Choice joint with Song-oh Yoon

Other Papers

The Expectation Hypothesis of Term Structure: Do outliers explain the rejection of the EH with US data?

Well-posedness, Decay Estimates and Blow-Up Theorem for the Forced NLS joint with Charles Bu, Randy Shull and Millie Chu, 2001,
    Journal of Partial Differential Equations, 14 (1): 61-70

On the Forced Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation joint with Charles Bu, Randy Shull and Millie Chu, 2000
    Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Wave Propagation, Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 626-630

Contact Info:

Office Mailing Address:
Department of Finance
601 S. Morgan St.
M/C 168
Chicago, IL, 60607
USA
E-mail: hfwang at uic dot edu