Hui Chen

Hui Chen is 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.

Current Research Focus:  Professor Chen’s current projects include one on the link between debt maturity and credit risk. For firms, the project studies how they should manage their debt maturity structure over the business cycle to reduce the risks of financial distress and default. For investors, the study shows how that information about the debt maturity dynamics has important effects on corporate bond valuation. In another project, Professor Chen examines cash and debt management for financially constrained firms.