Hui Chen

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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1.

Macroeconomic Conditions and the Puzzles of Credit Spreads and Capital Structure

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Macroeconomic Conditions and the Puzzles of Credit Spreads and Capital Structure

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 30 Sep 2009
Hui Chen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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capital structure, credit spread, default risk, business cycle, default losses

Macroeconomic Conditions and the Puzzles of Credit Spreads and Capital Structure

NBER Working Paper No. w16151
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 07 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 20 Aug 2010
Hui Chen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Market Timing, Investment, and Risk Management

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Market Timing, Investment, and Risk Management

AFA 2012 Chicago Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 16 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 29 Mar 2012
Patrick Bolton, Hui Chen and Neng Wang
Columbia Business School - Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics
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risk management, liquidity, financial crisis, market timing, investment, q theory

Market Timing, Investment, and Risk Management

NBER Working Paper No. w16808
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 28 Feb 2011
Patrick Bolton, Hui Chen and Neng Wang
Columbia Business School - Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics
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A Unified Theory of Tobin's Q, Corporate Investment, Financing, and Risk Management

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A Unified Theory of Tobin's Q, Corporate Investment, Financing, and Risk Management

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming , AFA 2010 Atlanta Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 19 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 12 Jul 2011
Patrick Bolton, Hui Chen and Neng Wang
Columbia Business School - Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics
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investment, q theory, cash management, liquidity, hedging, payout, financing

A Unified Theory of Tobin's Q, Corporate Investment, Financing, and Risk Management

NBER Working Paper No. w14845
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 07 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2010
Patrick Bolton, Hui Chen and Neng Wang
Columbia Business School - Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics
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Demand for Crash Insurance, Intermediary Constraints, and Risk Premia in Financial Markets

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Demand for Crash Insurance, Intermediary Constraints, and Risk Premia in Financial Markets

AFA 2013 San Diego Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 19 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2019
Hui Chen, Scott Joslin and Sophie Xiaoyan Ni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Southern California and Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)
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Intermediary constraint, tail risk, SPX option, return predictability, supply shocks, leverage

Demand for Crash Insurance, Intermediary Constraints, and Risk Premia in Financial Markets

NBER Working Paper No. w25573
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 26 Feb 2019
Hui Chen, Scott Joslin and Sophie Xiaoyan Ni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Southern California and Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)
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Systematic Risk, Debt Maturity, and the Term Structure of Credit Spreads

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Systematic Risk, Debt Maturity, and the Term Structure of Credit Spreads

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 21 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 15 Nov 2019
Hui Chen, Yu Xu and Jun Yang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics and Bank of Canada
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credit risk, term structure, business cycle, maturity dynamics, liquidity

Systematic Risk, Debt Maturity, and the Term Structure of Credit Spreads

NBER Working Paper No. w18367
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 08 Sep 2012
Hui Chen, Yu Xu and Jun Yang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics and Bank of Canada
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Measuring 'Dark Matter' in Asset Pricing Models

NBER Working Paper Series, The Rodney L. White Center Working Papers Series at the Wharton School, The Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Working Papers Series, The Wharton School Research Paper
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 19 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2020
Hui Chen, Winston Dou and Leonid Kogan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Fragile beliefs, Unstable models, Misspecification and robustness, Out-of-sample fit, Semiparametric information bounds

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Houses as ATMs? Mortgage Refinancing and Macroeconomic Uncertainty

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Houses as ATMs? Mortgage Refinancing and Macroeconomic Uncertainty

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 22 Jun 2012 Last Revised: 23 Nov 2018
Hui Chen, Michael Michaux and Nikolai L. Roussanov
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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mortgage refinancing, home equity, housing collateral, liquidity constraints, household consumption and saving decisions, leverage

Houses as Atms? Mortgage Refinancing and Macroeconomic Uncertainty

NBER Working Paper No. w19421
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 20 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2016
Hui Chen, Michael Michaux and Nikolai L. Roussanov
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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Debt, Taxes, and Liquidity

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Debt, Taxes, and Liquidity

Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 14-17
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 13 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 22 Nov 2014
Patrick Bolton, Hui Chen and Neng Wang
Columbia Business School - Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics
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Capital structure, liquidity, cash, financing frictions, marginal tax benefit of debt, tradeoff theory

Debt, Taxes, and Liquidity

NBER Working Paper No. w20009
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 31 Mar 2014
Patrick Bolton, Hui Chen and Neng Wang
Columbia Business School - Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics
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Rare Disasters and Risk Sharing with Heterogeneous Beliefs

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Rare Disasters and Risk Sharing with Heterogeneous Beliefs

AFA 2011 Denver Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 18 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2013
Hui Chen, Scott Joslin and Ngoc-Khanh Tran
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Southern California and Pamplin College of Business - Virginia Tech
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Rare Disasters and Risk Sharing with Heterogeneous Beliefs

NBER Working Paper No. w16035
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 04 Jun 2010
Hui Chen, Scott Joslin and Ngoc-Khanh Tran
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Southern California and Pamplin College of Business - Virginia Tech
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Dynamic Asset Allocation with Ambiguous Return Predictability

AFA 2010 Atlanta Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 02 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2011
Hui Chen, Nengjiu Ju and Jianjun Miao
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) - Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF) and Boston University - Department of Economics
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generalized recursive ambiguity utility, ambiguity aversion, model uncertainty, learning, portfolio choice, robustness, return predictability

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Entrepreneurial Finance and Nondiversifiable Risk

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Entrepreneurial Finance and Nondiversifiable Risk

Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 27 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 07 Jul 2010
Hui Chen, Jianjun Miao and Neng Wang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston University - Department of Economics and Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics
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default, diversification benefits, entrepreneurial risk aversion, incomplete markets, idiosyncratic risk premium, hedging, capital structure, cash-out option, precautionary saving

Entrepreneurial Finance and Non-Diversifiable Risk

NBER Working Paper No. w14848
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 07 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2014
Hui Chen, Jianjun Miao and Neng Wang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston University - Department of Economics and Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics
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Generalized Transform Analysis of Affine Processes and Applications in Finance

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Generalized Transform Analysis of Affine Processes and Applications in Finance

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 17 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2011
Hui Chen and Scott Joslin
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Southern California
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option pricing, recovery risk, stochastic discount factor, characteristic function, Fourier transform

Generalized Transform Analysis of Affine Processes and Applications in Finance

NBER Working Paper No. w16906
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 28 Mar 2011
Hui Chen and Scott Joslin
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Southern California
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Stock Return Volatility and Capital Structure Decisions

PBCSF-NIFR Research Paper No. 13-04
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 29 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 19 Feb 2016
Hui Chen, Hao Wang and Hao Zhou
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tsinghua University and Tsinghua University - PBC School of Finance
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Stock Return Volatility, Leverage Ratio, Surprise Shocks, Idiosyncratic Volatility, Uncertainty

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Pledgeability and Asset Prices: Evidence from the Chinese Corporate Bond Markets

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Pledgeability and Asset Prices: Evidence from the Chinese Corporate Bond Markets

University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2018-82
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 04 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 04 Dec 2019
Hui Chen, Zhuo Chen, Zhiguo He, Jinyu Liu and Rengming Xie
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tsinghua University, University of Chicago - Finance, University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) - School of Banking and Finance and CITIC Securities
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Pledgeability, haircut, repo, interbank and exchange markets, enterprise bonds, shadow cost of capital

Pledgeability and Asset Prices: Evidence from the Chinese Corporate Bond Markets

NBER Working Paper No. w26520
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 03 Dec 2019
Hui Chen, Zhuo Chen, Zhiguo He, Jinyu Liu and Rengming Xie
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tsinghua University, University of Chicago - Finance, University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) - School of Banking and Finance and CITIC Securities
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Macroeconomic Risk and Debt Overhang

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 12 Nov 2014
Hui Chen and Gustavo Manso
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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Quantifying Liquidity and Default Risks of Corporate Bonds Over the Business Cycle

NBER Working Paper No. w20638
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 03 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2018
Hui Chen, Rui Cui, Zhiguo He and Konstantin Milbradt
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Chicago - Finance, University of Chicago - Finance and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management - Department of Finance
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Predation or Self-Defense? Endogenous Competition and Financial Distress

Number of pages: 71
Hui Chen, Winston Dou, Hongye Guo and Yan Ji
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)
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Competition-Distress Feedback, Financial Contagion, Industrial Organization, Gross Profitability Premium, Financial Distress Premium

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Online Appendix for 'Measuring the 'Dark Matter' in Asset Pricing Models'

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 21 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2020
Hui Chen, Winston Dou and Leonid Kogan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Fragile beliefs, Unstable models, Misspecification and robustness, Out-of-sample fit, Semiparametric information bounds.

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Measuring 'Dark Matter' in Asset Pricing Models

NBER Working Paper No. w26418
Number of pages: 83 Posted: 03 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 11 Dec 2019
Hui Chen, Winston Wei Dou and Leonid Kogan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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