Chong Huang

Biography

Chong Huang, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in Finance at the Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine, where he has served since 2012. His research focuses on financial markets, information economics, and strategic interactions in finance, with particular emphasis on coordination games, information asymmetry, and financial intermediation. Huang has published extensively in top-tier journals including the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Financial Economics.

Huang's work examines how information and strategic behavior shape financial markets and corporate decisions. His research on star-rating effects in mutual funds, published in the Journal of Finance, received the 2020 outstanding research awards of China Information Economics Society. He has also contributed to understanding credit rating inflation, debt structure, and market efficiency through collaborations with scholars across multiple institutions. His work spans theoretical and empirical approaches to questions in asset pricing, financial intermediation, and corporate finance.

Huang received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012, where his dissertation on learning in dynamic games was advised by George Mailath. He serves as Finance area coordinator at the Paul Merage School of Business and has been an active member of the academic community through extensive conference presentations, editorial service for journals including the American Economic Review and Econometrica, and participation in program committees for associations such as the Financial Intermediation Research Society and Western Finance Association.

Education

• Ph.D. in Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 2012
• M.Phil. in Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006
• B.A. in Finance, Peking University, 2003

Distinctions

• Sidney Weintraub Memorial Fellowship for outstanding research in economic theory, University of Pennsylvania, 2010-2011
• Outstanding research awards, China Information Economics Society, 2020
• Lawrence Robbins Prize for the best first year student, University of Pennsylvania, 2008
• Best Master of Philosophy Thesis Award, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006
• Junior faculty research award, Paul Merage School of Business, UC Irvine, 2020