Alan Huang
Associate Professor
Accounting and Finance
University of Waterloo
Canada
Biography
Alan Huang is an associate professor of finance at the University of Waterloo. His research covers aspects of empirical asset pricing related to how information transmits in the financial markets. Currently Alan's research interests are in the pricing implications of firms’ financial information uncertainty, information implications of corporate news stories, and the impacts of consumers’ time-varying risk attitude on asset returns. Alan's work has appeared in leading finance and accounting journals, and he has received a number of federal grants for his research work. Prior to his academic career, Alan was an investment banking associate and a proprietary trader for a Chinese investment bank. Alan holds a PhD from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a master's from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.
Research Interest
Aspects of empirical asset pricing related to how information transmits in the financial markets, pricing implications of firms’ financial information uncertainty, information implications of corporate news stories, and the impacts of consumers’ time-varying risk attitude on asset returns
Publications
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Chen C, Huang AG, Jha R. Idiosyncratic return volatility and the information quality underlying managerial discretion. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. 2012 Aug;47(4):873-99.
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Sati P. Bandyopadhyay, Changling Chen, Alan Huang, and Ranjini Jha, “Accounting Conservatism and the Temporal Trends in Current Earnings’ Ability to Predict Future Cash Flows versus Future Earnings: Evidence on the Tradeoff between Relevance and Reliabilityâ€, 2010, Contemporary Accounting Research 27, 413-460"
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Huang AG, Tian Y, Wirjanto TS. Re-Examining Accounting Conservatism: The Importance of Adjusting for Firm Heterogeneity. Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting. 2012 Jun 1;10:193-224.
