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Hong Liu

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Associate Professor of Finance

Expertise: Finance, stock market, investing, portfolio, options, market consumption

Bio: Professor Liu is an expert in asset and options pricing, and portfolio theory. His research focuses on optimal consumption and investment with market imperfections. Liu has also written papers that analyze traders' orders and that explore managerial preference for financial structure and corporate governance. Olin School of Business students have recognized Liu by voting for him to receive the Marcile and James Reid Chair for consistent teaching excellence.

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E-mail:liuh@wustl.edu

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Baby boomers' retirement could threaten Wall Street

What happens when everyone pulls the plug on investments? (http://news-info.wustl.edu/tips/page/normal/7269.html)

June 8, 2006 --
It's not just social security and health-care that could be adversely affected when the baby boomers leave the workforce; the stock market could go into shock as well. According to research at the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis, when people retire, they tend not invest as much they did in their younger years. With the boomer generation starting to pull out of the workforce, Wall Street is bound to feel the blow. More... (http://news-info.wustl.edu/tips/page/normal/7269.html)



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Boomer Bust In Stocks? What Drugs Are You Taking?
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

June 26, 2006 -- For years, some market pundits have worried about what would happen if aging baby boomers, one-time advocates of making love not war and impeaching Tricky Dickie, decided that owning stock is riskier than dropping a tab of LSD copped from an OD'd Grateful Dead groupie. What if retirement to boomers means turning on, tuning in and dropping out of the stock market? One of those to raise the specter most recently is Hong Liu, who teaches finance at WUSTL. "When millions of baby boomers follow that pattern in a concentrated period of time, the impact on the stock market could be formidable," Mr. Liu warns.



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