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Gur Huberman

Gur Huberman
Robert G. Kirby Professor of Behavioral Finance
Finance Division
Areas of Expertise
Financial Engineering
Contact
Office: 1183 Kravis
E-mail: [email protected]
Links
Personal Website
Curriculum Vitae

Gur Huberman is the Robert G. Kirby Professor of Behavioral Finance at Columbia Business School where he has taught since 1989. Prior to that, he taught at Tel Aviv University and at the University of Chicago. Between 1993 and 1995 he was Vice President at JP Morgan Investment Management responsible for research on quantitative equity trading. In that capacity, he also helped develop tax aware strategies for the private bank. He earned his Ph.D. (with distinction) in operations research from Yale in 1980 and his B.Sc. (cum laude) in mathematics from Tel Aviv University in 1975.

Professor Huberman’s published work is widely read and cited, and covers a broad range in finance and economics. He contributed to the theory of equilibrium return-risk tradeoff, to the theory of contracts, to the study of individual’s portfolio selection, especially in the context of retirement savings to the theory of liquidity and trading, and to Behavior Finance. More recently he has turned his attention to FinTech and cryptocurrencies.

Professor Huberman was a founding managing editor of the International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance. His co-authored paper won the 2006 Journal of Finance Distinguished Paper award of the Smith-Breeden Prize. He was a member of the Academic Advisory Board of Morgan Stanley Equity Market Microstructure Research.

Education
BS, Tel Aviv University, 1975; MS, University of British Columbia, 1977; PhD, Yale, 1980
Joined CBS
1989

All Activities

  • Research
  • Teaching
  • Awards and Honors
  • Press
  • Journal articles
  • Working papers
  • Articles
  • Books
  • Chapters
Type
Journal Article
Huberman, Gur, Jacob D. Leshno, and Ciamac Moallemi
. “Monopoly without a Monopolist: An Economic Analysis of the Bitcoin Payment System.”
Review of Economic Studies
vol.
88
, no.
6
(November 01, 2021):
3011
-
3040
.
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Journal Article
Huberman, Gur, Jacob Leshno, and Ciamac Moallemi
. “An Economist’s Perspective on the Bitcoin Payment System.”
AEA Papers and Proceedings
vol.
109
, (May 01, 2019):
93
-
96
.
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Type
Journal Article
Huberman, Gur, Tobias Konitzer, Masha Krupenkin, David Rothschild, and Shawndra Hill
. “Economic Expectations, Voting, and Decisions around Elections.”
AEA Papers and Proceedings
vol.
108
, (May 01, 2018):
597
-
602
.
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Type
Journal Article
Guasoni, Paolo, Gur Huberman, and Zhenyu Wang
. “Performance Maximization of Actively Managed Funds.”
Journal of Finanical Economics
vol.
101
, (September 01, 2011):
574
-
595
.
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Type
Journal Article
Huberman, Gur
. “What is the NPV of Expected Future Profits of Money Managers?”
Rivista Bancaria – Minerva Bancaria
vol.
1
, (January 01, 2010):
7
-
37
.
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Type
Journal Article
Dorn, Daniel and Gur Huberman
. “Preferred Risk Habitat of Individual Investors.”
Journal of Financial Economics
vol.
97
, (January 01, 2010):
155
-
173
.
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Type
Journal Article
Huberman, Gur
. “Is the Price of Money Managers Too Low?”
Rivista Bancaria
vol.
1
, (January 01, 2010):
7
-
38
.
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Type
Journal Article
Huberman, Gur, Daniel Dorn, and Paul Sengmueller
. “Correlated Trading and Returns.”
Journal of Finance
vol.
63
, (January 01, 2008):
885
-
920
.
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Type
Journal Article
Huberman, Gur, Sheena Iyengar, and Wei Jiang
. “Defined Contribution Pension Plans: Determinants of Participation and Contribution Rates.”
Journal of Financial Services Research
vol.
31
, (January 01, 2007):
1
-
32
.
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Type
Journal Article
Jiang, Wei and Gur Huberman
. “Offering Versus Choice by 401(k) Plan Participants: Equity Exposure and Number of Funds.”
Journal of Finance
vol.
61
, (April 01, 2006):
763
-
801
.
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Journal Article
Huberman, Gur and Wei Jiang
. “Offering vs. Choice in 401(k) Plans: Equity Exposure and Number of Funds.”
Journal of Finance
vol.
61
, no.
2
(April 01, 2006):
763
-
801
.
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Type
Journal Article
Huberman, Gur, Simon Gilchrist, and Charles Himmelberg
. “Do Stock Price Bubbles Influence Corporate Investment?”
Journal of Monetary Economics
vol.
52
, (May 01, 2005):
805
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827
.
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Type
Journal Article
Huberman, Gur and Daniel Dorn
. “Talk and Action: What Individuals Say and What They Do.”
Review of Finance
vol.
9
, (January 01, 2005):
437
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81
.
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Type
Journal Article
Huberman, Gur and Werner Stanzl
. “Optimal Liquidity Trading.”
Review of Finance
vol.
9
, (January 01, 2005):
165
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200
.
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Type
Journal Article
Huberman, Gur and Paul Sengmuller
. “Performance and Employer Stock in 401(k) Plans.”
Review of Finance
vol.
8
, (September 01, 2004):
403
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443
.
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Type
Journal Article
Huberman, Gur and Werner Stanzl
. “Price Manipulation and Quasi-Arbitrage.”
Econometrica
vol.
74
, (July 01, 2004):
1247
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1276
.
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Type
Journal Article
Huberman, Gur and Tomer Regev
. “Contagious Speculation and a Cure for Cancer: A Non-Event that Made Stock Prices Soar.”
Journal of Finance
vol.
56
, (February 01, 2001):
387
-
396
.
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Type
Journal Article
Huberman, Gur
. “Familiarity Breeds Investment.”
Review of Financial Studies
vol.
14
, (January 01, 2001):
659
-
680
.
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Type
Journal Article
Huberman, Gur and Dominika Halka
. “Systematic Liquidity.”
Journal of Financial Research
vol.
24
, (January 01, 2001):
161
-
78
.
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Type
Journal Article
Yemini, Y., A. Dalianas, D. Florissi, and Gur Huberman
. “MarketNet: Protecting Access to Information Systems Through Financial Markets Controls.”
Decision Support Systems special issue on Information and Computation Economies
vol.
28
, no.
1-2
(January 01, 2000):
205
-
216
.
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Type
Journal Article
Yemini, Y., A. Dailianas, D. Florissi, and Gur Huberman
. “MarketNet: Market-Based Protection of Information Systems.”
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Information and Computation Economies
(October 01, 1998):
181
-
190
.
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Type
Journal Article
Huberman, Gur
. “Corporate Risk Management to Reduce Borrowing Costs.”
Economics Letters
vol.
54
, (July 01, 1997):
265
-
269
.
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Type
Journal Article
Huberman, Gur
. “The Desirability of Investment in Commodities Via Commodity Futures.”
Derivatives Quarterly
(October 01, 1995):
65
-
67
.
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Type
Journal Article
Huberman, Gur and Shmuel Kandel
. “On the Incentives for Money Managers: A Signalling Approach.”
European Economic Review
vol.
37
, no.
5
(June 01, 1993):
1065
-
1082
.
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Type
Journal Article
Huberman, Gur
. “Dividend Neutrality with Transaction Costs.”
Journal of Business
vol.
63
, no.
1
(January 01, 1990):
S93
-
S106
.
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Type
Journal Article
Huberman, Gur and Shmuel Kandel
. “Market Efficiency and Value Line's Record.”
Journal of Business
vol.
63
, (January 01, 1990):
187
-
216
.
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Type
Journal Article
Kahn, Charles M. and Gur Huberman
. “Default, Foreclosure, and Strategic Renegotiation.”
Law and Contemporary Problems
vol.
52
, no.
1
(December 01, 1989):
49
-
62
.
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Type
Journal Article
Huberman, Gur and Shmuel Kandel
. “Firms' Fiscal Years, Size and Industry.”
Economics Letters
vol.
29
, no.
1
(January 01, 1989):
69
-
76
.
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Type
Journal Article
Kahn, Charles and Gur Huberman
. “Two Sided Uncertainty and "Up-or-Out" Contracts.”
Journal of Labor Economics
vol.
6
, no.
4
(October 01, 1988):
423
-
444
.
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Type
Journal Article
Huberman, Gur and Charles M. Kahn
. “Strategic renegotiation.”
Economics Letters
vol.
28
, no.
2
(September 01, 1988):
117
-
122
.
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Journal Article
Huberman, Gur and Charles Kahn
. “Limited Contract Enforcement and Strategic Renegotiation.”
American Economic Review
vol.
78
, no.
3
(June 01, 1988):
471
-
484
.
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Type
Journal Article
Huberman, Gur
. “Optimality of Periodicity.”
Review of Economic Studies
vol.
55
, no.
1
(January 01, 1988):
127
-
138
.
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Type
Journal Article
Huberman, Gur and Shmuel Kandel
. “Value Line Rank and Firm Size.”
Journal of Business
vol.
60
, no.
4
(October 01, 1987):
577
-
589
.
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Type
Journal Article
Huberman, Gur and Shmuel Kandel
. “Mean Variance Spanning.”
Journal of Finance
vol.
42
, no.
4
(September 01, 1987):
873
-
888
.
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Type
Journal Article
Huberman, Gur, Shmuel Kandel, and Robert F. Stambaugh
. “Mimicking Portfolios and Exact Arbitrage Pricing.”
Journal of Finance
vol.
42
, no.
1
(January 01, 1987):
1
-
9
.
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Type
Journal Article
Huberman, Gur and G. William Schwert
. “Information Aggregation, Inflation and the Pricing of Indexed Bonds.”
Journal of Political Economy
vol.
93
, (July 01, 1985):
92
-
114
.
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Type
Journal Article
Granot, Daniel and Gur Huberman
. “On the Core and Nucleolus of Minimum Cost Spanning Tree Games.”
Mathematical Programming
vol.
29
, (September 01, 1984):
323
-
347
.
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Type
Journal Article
Huberman, Gur
. “Capital Asset Pricing in an Overlapping Generations Model.”
Journal of Economic Theory
vol.
33
, no.
2
(August 01, 1984):
232
-
248
.
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Type
Journal Article
Huberman, Gur
. “External Financing and Liquidity.”
Journal of Finance
vol.
39
, no.
3
(July 01, 1984):
895
-
908
.
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Type
Journal Article
Huberman, Gur, David Mayers, and Clifford W. Smith, Jr.
. “Optimal Insurance Policy Indemnity Schedules.”
Bell Journal of Economics
vol.
14
, no.
2
(October 01, 1983):
415
-
426
.
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Type
Journal Article
Huberman, Gur
. “Error bounds for the aggregated convex programming problem.”
Mathematical Programming
vol.
26
, (May 01, 1983):
100
-
108
.
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Type
Journal Article
Granot, Daniel and Gur Huberman
. “The Relationship Between Convex and Minimum Cost Spanning Tree Games: A Case for Permutationally Convex Games.”
SIAM Journal on Algebraic and Discrete Methods
vol.
3
, no.
3
(September 01, 1982):
288
-
292
.
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Type
Journal Article
Denardo, Eric. V., Gur Huberman, and Uriel G. Rothblum
. “Optimal Locations on a Line Are Interleaved.”
Operations Research
vol.
30
, no.
4
(August 01, 1982):
601
-
796
.
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Type
Journal Article
Huberman, Gur
. “A Simple Approach to Arbitrage Pricing Theory.”
Journal of Economic Theory
vol.
28
, (January 01, 1982):
183
-
91
.
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Type
Journal Article
Huberman, Gur and D. Granot
. “Minimum Cost Spanning Tree Games.”
Mathematical Programming
vol.
21
, (January 01, 1981):
1
-
18
.
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Type
Journal Article
Huberman, Gur
. “Qualitative behavior of a fishery system.”
Mathematical Biosciences
vol.
42
, no.
1-2
(November 01, 1978):
1
-
14
.
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Journal Article
Huberman, Gur
. “The Nucleolus and the Essential Coalitions.”
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Analysis and Optimization of Systems
(January 01, 1978).
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Type
Journal Article
Huberman, Gur and Stephen Ross
. “Portfolio Turnpike Theorems, Risk Aversion and Regularly Varying Utility Functions.”
Econometrica
vol.
51
, no.
5
(November 27, 2023):
1345
-
1361
.
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Type
Working Paper
Guasoni, Paolo, Gur Huberman, and Clara Shikhelman
. Lightning Network Economics: Channels. May 05, 2021.
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Type
Working Paper
Huberman, Gur and Paolo Guasoni
. Asset Pricing for the Shortfall Averse. January 01, 2017.
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Type
Working Paper
Guasoni, Paolo, Gur Huberman, and Dan Ren
. Shortfall Aversion. February 01, 2015.
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Type
Working Paper
Huberman, Gur
. Moral Hazard and Debt Maturity. December 01, 2013.
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Type
Chapter
Huberman, Gur and Zhenyu Wang
. “Arbitrage Pricing Theory.” In
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
, edited by
Larry Blume and Steven Durlauf
,
England
:
Palgrave Macmillan
, Forthcoming.
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Chapter
Ang, Andrew, Ann Bartel, Patrick Bolton, Wouter Dessein, Franklin Edwards, Lawrence Glosten, Geoffrey Heal, Gur Huberman, Charles Jones, Christopher Mayer, Frederic Mishkin, Eli Noam, Andrea Prat, Jonah Rockoff, Lynne Sagalyn, Stephen Zeldes, and Brian Thomas
. “1. Finance and Economics.” In
Columbia Business School
,
1
-
28
.
Columbia University Press
, 2016.
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Chapter
Iyengar, Sheena, Wei Jiang, and Gur Huberman
. “How much choice is too much: Determinants of individual contributions in 401K retirement plans.” In
Pension Design and Structure: Lessons from Behavioral Finance
,
83
-
95
.
Oxford, UK
:
Oxford University Press
, 2004.
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Chapter
Huberman, Gur
. “Behavioral Finance and Markets.” In
Cognitive Processes and Economic Behavior
, edited by
Dimitri, Nicola, Marcello Basili, and Itzhak Gilboa
,
1
-
14
.
London
:
Routledge
, 2003.
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Chapter
Huberman, Gur and Zhenyu Wang
. “Arbitrage Pricing Theory.” In
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance
,
Palgrave Macmillan
, 1991.
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Chapter
Huberman, Gur
. “Arbitrage Pricing Theory.” In
The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economic Theory and Doctrine
,
106
-
110
.
Palgrave Macmillan
, 1987.
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Chapter
Huberman, Gur
. “Home Bias in Equity Markets: International and Intranational Evidence.” In
Intranational Macroeconomics
, edited by
Gregory D. Hess and Eric van Wincoop
,
76
-
91
.
Cambridge, UK
:
Cambridge University Press
,
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