Jungsuk Han receives Brattle Distinguished Paper Prize
Jungsuk’s paper explores the mechanisms of financial fire sales. During a crisis, prices become less informative as specialist investors become more constrained. Non-specialist investors, worrying about potential adverse selection, become less unwilling to supply capital to support the price. The stabilizing mechanism of capital from non-specialist investors fails which in turn increases the risk of financial fire sales.
The Brattle Group Prizes are awarded annually for outstanding academic papers in the field of corporate finance. They are chosen by the associate editors of The Journal of Finance from papers published in The Journal during the prior year.
Jungsuk Han is an Associate Professor in Finance at the Department of Finance. Find out more about his research here
