Huaizhi Chen
Assistant Professor
Finance
574-631-3385
238 Mendoza College of Business
- Biography
- Background
- Publications
- Awards
Huaizhi Chen is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Notre Dame. His research focuses on the interaction of investor behavior and capital markets. After graduating from the London School of Economics with a PhD in finance, he spent two years working as a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard Business School.
Education
Ph D, London School of Economics and Political Science
MS, London School of Economics and Political Science
MS, Case Western Reserve University
BSBA, Case Western Reserve University
"Self-Declared Benchmarks and Fund Manager Intent: Cheating or Competing?", (With Richard Evans, Yang Sun), Journal of Financial Economics, 2025
"Calling All Issuers: The Market for Debt Monitoring", (With Lauren Cohen, Weiling Liu), Management Science, 2024
"Diversification Driven Demand for Large Stocks", Journal of Financial Economics - Accepted (awaiting publication)
"Cash Induced Demand", Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2024
"Don't Take Their Word For It: The MIsclassification of Bond Mutual Funds", (With Lauren Cohen, Umit Gurun), Journal of Finance, 2021
"IQ from IP", (With Lauren Cohen, Umit Gurun, Dong Lou, Christopher Malloy), Journal of Financial Economics, 2020
"Industry Window Dressing", (With Lauren Cohen, Dong Lou), Review of Financial Studies, 2016
Award
"Best Discussant Award", Cornell ESG Investing Conference, 2023
"Best Paper in Investments", Eastern Finance Association Meeting, 2023
"Notre Dame Mission Award", University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business, 2022
"Best Paper Award on the Investment Area", FMA, 2020
"Consortium on Asset Management Best Paper Award", 2020
"Crowell Prize", PanAgora Asset Management, 2019
"IQ-KAP Best Paper Award (2nd Place)", Deka-Bank, 2018