Harrison Hong is the John R. Eckel Jr. Professor of Financial Economics at

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. He was awarded the 2009

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by the

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, given biennially to a financial economics scholar under the age of 40 for significant original research that is relevant to finance practice. He received his B.A. in economics and statistics with highest distinction from the

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in 1992 and his Ph.D. in economics from the

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in 1997. He was earlier the John Scully ’66 Professor of Economics and Finance at

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. His research interests include behavioural finance and stock market efficiency, asset pricing and trading under market imperfections, incentives and biases in decision making, and organisational form and performance.

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