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Howard Kung

Associate Professor of Finance

BA (Virginia) PhD (Duke)

Dr Howard Kung joined the School in August 2014, after two years at the University of British Columbia, Sauder School of Business. He completed his PhD in Finance at Duke University and prior to his doctorate, he studied Mathematics and Economics at the University of Virginia. Howard’s research focuses on macro-finance and asset pricing. It encompasses monetary/fiscal policy, industrial organisation, and its interaction with asset pricing and firms’ investment. He has published his research in top journals such as the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Finance, and the Journal of Monetary Economics. His research has been covered in major media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Reuters, Forbes, and Bloomberg. Howard teaches in the MBA and PhD programmes.

 

2025

Q: Risk, rents, or growth?

Corhay A; Kung H; Schmid L

Journal of Financial Economics 2025 In Press

2024

Using Social Media to Identify the Effects of Congressional Viewpoints on Asset Prices

Bianchi F; Gómez-Cram R; Kung H

Review of Financial Studies 2024 Vol 37:7 p 2244-2272

2023

Discount Rates, Debt Maturity, and the Fiscal Theory

Corhay A; Kind T; Kung H; Morales G

Journal of Finance 2023 Vol 78:6 p 3561-3620

2023

Micro Uncertainty and Asset Prices

Herskovic B; Kind T; Kung H

Journal of Financial Economics 2023 In Press

2023

The origins and effects of macroeconomic uncertainty

Bianchi F; Kung H; Tirskikh M

Quantitative Economics 2023 Vol 14:3 p 855-896

2023

Threats to Central Bank Independence: High-Frequency Identification with Twitter

Bianchi F; Gomez-Cram R; Kind T; Kung H

Journal of Monetary Economics 2023 Vol 135 p 37-54

2021

Computational Methods for Production-Based Asset Pricing Models with Recursive Utility

Aldrich E H; Kung H

Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics 2021 Vol 25:1

2020

Competition, markups, and predictable returns

Corhay A; Kung H; Schmid L

Review of Financial Studies 2020 Vol 33:12 p 5906-5939

2019

Growth, slowdowns, and recoveries

Kung H; Bianchi F; Morales G

Journal of Monetary Economics 2019 January Vol 101 p 47-63

2019

The CAPM strikes back? An equilibrium model with disasters

Kung H; Bai H; Hou K; Zhang L

Journal of Financial Economics 2019 Vol 131:2 p 269-298

2017

The asset redeployability channel: how uncertainty affects corporate investment

Kung H; Kim H

Review of Financial Studies 2017 Vol 30:1 p 245-280

2015

Innovation, growth and asset prices

Kung H; Schmid L

Journal of Finance 2015 Vol 70:3 p 1001-1037

2015

Macroeconomic linkages between monetary policy and the term structure of interest rates

Kung H

Journal of Financial Economics 2015 Vol 115:1 p 42-57

2012

Fiscal policies and asset prices

Croce M M; Kung H; Nguyen T T; Schmid L

Review of Financial Studies 2012 Vol 25:9 p 2635-2672

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