Hui Chen (economist)

Economist

This article is about the economist. For the American physicist, see Hui Chen.

Hui Chen

Academic background
Alma mater| Sun Yat-Sen University, University of Michigan, University of Chicago
Academic work
Discipline| Finance, economics, machine learning
Institutions| MIT Sloan School of Management, National Bureau of Economic Research

Hui Chen is the Nomura Professor of Finance and a Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Hui Chen is a co-editor of the Annual Review of Financial Economics.[1]

## Education

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Chen has a B.A. in economics and finance from Sun Yat-Sen University (Zhongshan University, 2000), an M.S. in mathematics from the University of Michigan (2002), and a Ph.D. in finance from the University of Chicago (2007).[2][3]

## Career

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Chen is the Nomura Professor of Finance and a Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology[2] and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.[4]

Chen has served on the board of the Macro Finance Society. He is a co-editor of the Annual Review of Financial Economics[1] and an editor of the Review of Asset Pricing Studies.[5]

## Research

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Chen studies issues in asset pricing and corporate finance, including credit risk, financing, investment decisions, liquidity, and the macroeconomy. He applies business cycle models to corporate financing and corporate bond pricing.[2] He combines machine learning methods with finance theory and uses machine learning to develop robust algorithms for credit risk forecasting models and protect them against strategic attacks.[6] He is particularly interested in the behavior of Chinese financial markets.[2]

## Awards

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* 2019, North America Arthur Warga Award for Best Paper in Fixed Income, Society for Financial Studies[2][7]
* 2011, Smith Breeden Prize/Dimensional Fund Advisors Prize, Journal of Finance, American Finance Association[8]

## References

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1. ^ a b Lo, Andrew W.; Merton, Robert C. (1 November 2021). "A Look Back and a Way Forward". Annual Review of Financial Economics. 13 (1): v–viii. doi:10.1146/annurev-fe-13-090321-100001. ISSN 1941-1367. S2CID 240443908. Archived from the original on 25 January 2022. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
2. ^ a b c d e "Hui Chen". MIT Sloan. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
3. ^ "Hui Chen" (PDF). MIT Sloan School of Management. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
4. ^ "Hui Chen". National Bureau of Economic Research. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
5. ^ "Review of Asset Pricing Studies". Retrieved 1 April 2022.
6. ^ Boult, Trent (10 January 2022). "Economics makes it easier for AI algorithms to make better decisions". Worldakkam. Archived from the original on 1 February 2022. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
7. ^ "Arthur Warga Award". Society for Financial Studies. 28 January 2014. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
8. ^ "Prizes". The American Finance Association. Retrieved 1 February 2022.