Fischer Black Prize

The Fischer Black Prize honors the memory of Fischer Black, formerly a General Partner at Goldman Sachs and Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whose seminal research included the development (with Myron Scholes) of the widely applied Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model. The prize was established in 2002 and honors individual financial research. It is awarded for a body of work that best exemplifies the Fischer Black hallmark of developing original research that is relevant to finance practice. The winner must either be under age 40, or under age 45 for a winner who had not been awarded a Ph.D. (or equivalent) by age 35. The prize is awarded biennially at the Association's Annual Meeting.

 

Fischer Black Prize Winners

2009

Harrison Hong, Princeton University

2007

Tobias J. Moskowitz, University of Chicago 2003 Raghuram G. Rajan, University of Chicago

Harrison Hong, MIT, Ph.D., 1997 Economics, has won the Fischer Black Prize

The price is awarded biennially by the American Finance Association. It is awarded for a body of work that best exemplifies the Fischer Black hallmark of developing original research that is relevant to finance practice.

HARRISON HONG

Date of Birth: September 6, 1970.

Citizenship: USA
Undergraduate Studies: University of California, Berkeley, B.A., 1992, double
major in Economics and Statistics, with a minor in Mathematics, highest distinction.

Graduate Studies: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D., 1997,
Economics.
Thesis Title: “Dynamic Models of Asset Returns and Trading”