Hui Chen

Jon D. Gruber Career Development Professor in Finance

Associate Professor of Finance

Hui Chen is the Jon D. Gruber Career Development Professor in Finance and an Associate Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

His research focuses on asset pricing and its connections with corporate finance. Chen is particularly interested in the interactions between the macro economy and term structure, credit risk, and corporate financing or investment decisions. His recent research projects include application of business cycle models to explain corporate financing behavior and corporate bond pricing, as well as analysis of the effects of incomplete markets on entrepreneurial financing and investments.

Chen holds a BA in economics and finance from Zhongshan University, an MS in mathematics from the University of Michigan, and a PhD in finance from the University of Chicago.

General Expertise: Bankruptcy; Bond pricing; Contagion; Financial econometrics; Financial engineering; Inflation; Investment risk

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