Harald Hau is Associate Professor of Finance at INSEAD, specializing in international finance, capital markets and market microstructure. He started his undergraduate education at Bonn University, pursued a MA in Economics at the University of Virginia before obtaining a PhD at Princeton University.

He taught at the French business school ESSEC before joining INSEAD. He is also affiliated with the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London. He was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in spring 2000 and a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund in spring 2002. In 2004-2005, he served as a panel member for the journal Economic Policy. He is also a fellow at the Center for Economic Studies (University of Munich).

In his research, he contributes to academic and professional journals such as the American Economic Review, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Finance, Economic Policy, European Economic Review, European Journal of Finance, Journal of International Economics, Journal of International Money and Finance, and Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.

His analysis of information asymmetry in cross-border equity investments was awarded the Josseph de la Vega best paper award of the Federation of European Stock Exchanges. His most recent research is on Bank Governance and the financial crisis won a special best paper prize from Europlace in 2009 and the 2010 Standard Life Prize of the European Corporate Governance Institute.

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