Bo Hu

Assistant Professor of Finance

Costello College of Business

George Mason University

4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030

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Education

PhD in Finance University of Maryland College Park

PhD in Physics University of California San Diego

BS in Physics University of Science and Technology of China

Research Interest

Asset Pricing, Market Microstructure, and Machine Learning

Research Papers

Dynamic Duopolistic Competition with Sticky Prices

with Steven L. Heston (Operations Research, 2024)

Whence LASSO? A Rational Interpretation

with Wen Chen and Liyan Yang (Management Science, Forthcoming)

How does Benchmarking Affect Market Efficiency? The Role of Learning Technology

with Wen Chen and Yajun Wang

(Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Revise & Resubmit)

Seeing is Believing: Annual Report Visuals and Stock Returns

with Wesley Deng, Lei Gao, and Guofu Zhou

Limits to Leverage in CIR General Equilibrium

with Albert S. Kyle

What if the Long Forward Rate is Flat?

On a Puzzle of Bond Pricing in CIR Model (preliminary, not for circulation)

Do Position Limits on Futures Trading Benefit Commodity Markets?

with Wen Chen and Yajun Wang

Algorithmic Arbitrage with Fat Tails (in progress)

Magnet Effect of Position Limits (in progress)

Selected Publications in Physics

Behaviors and strategies of bacterial navigation in chemical and nonchemical gradients

Bo Hu and Yuhai Tu, PLOS Computational Biology (2014)

How input noise limits biochemical sensing in ultrasensitive systems

Bo Hu, Wouter-Jan Rappel, and Herbert Levine, Physical Review E (2014)

Precision sensing by two opposing gradient sensors: how E. coli find its preferred pH?

Bo Hu and Yuhai Tu, Biophysical Journal (2013)

Coordinated switching of bacterial flagger motors: evidence for motor-motor coupling?

Bo Hu and Yuhai Tu, Physical Review Letters (2013)

Survival of the fittest or the flattest? (Invited Commentary)

Bo Hu, Physics of Life Reviews (2012).

How input fluctuations reshape the dynamics of a biological switching system?

Bo Hu, David A. Kessler, Wouter-Jan Rappel, and Herbert Levine, Physical Review E (2012).

The effects of input noise on a simple biochemical switch

Bo Hu, David A. Kessler, Wouter-Jan Rappel, and Herbert Levine, Physical Review Letters (2011)

How geometry and internal bias affect the accuracy of eukaryotic gradient sensing

Bo Hu, Wen Chen, Wouter-Jan Rappel, Herbert Levine, Physical Review E (2011)

Quantifying information transmission in eukaryotic gradient sensing and chemotactic response

Bo Hu, Wen Chen, Wouter-Jan Rappel, and Herbert Levine, Journal of Statistical Physics (2011)

Design principles and specificity in biological networks with cross-activation

Bo Hu, Herbert Levine, and Wouter-Jan Rappel, Physical Biology (2011)

Physical limits on cellular sensing of spatial gradients

Bo Hu, Wen Chen, Wouter-Jan Rappel, and Herbert Levine, Physical Review Letters (2010)

Phenomenological approach to eukaryotic chemotactic efficiency

Bo Hu, Dan Fuller, William F. Loomis, Herbert Levine, and Wouter-Jan Rappel, Physical Review E (2010)

Mechanisms and constraints on yeast MAPK signaling specificity

Bo Hu, Wouter-Jan Rappel, and Herbert Levine, Biophysical Journal (2009)

Efficient routing on complex networks

Gang Yan, Tao Zhou, Bo Hu, Zhong-Qian Fu, and Bing-Hong Wang, Physical Review E (2006)

Mutual attraction model for both assortative and disassortative weighted networks

Wen-Xu Wang, Bo Hu, Bing-Hong Wang, and Gang Yan, Physical Review E (2006)

Mutual selection model for weighted networks

Wen-Xu Wang, Bo Hu, Tao Zhou, Bing-Hong Wang, and Yan-Bo Xie, Physical Review E (2005)

General dynamics of topology and traffic on weighted technological networks

Wen-Xu Wang, Bing-Hong Wang, Bo Hu, Gang Yan, and Qing Ou, Physical Review Letters (2005)

Power-law distribution of wealth in population based on a modified Equiluz-Zimmermann model

Yan-Bo Xie, Bing-Hong Wang, Bo Hu, and Tao Zhou, Physical Review E (2005)