Overview
Campbell R. Harvey is Professor of Finance at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He served as President of the American Finance Association in 2016.
Professor Harvey obtained his doctorate at the University of Chicago in business finance. He has served on the faculties of the Stockholm School of Economics, the Helsinki School of Economics, and the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. He has also been a visiting scholar at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
He is a Fellow of the American Finance Association.
Harvey received the 2015, 2016 and 2022 Best Paper Awards from the Journal of Portfolio Management. He has also received nine Graham and Dodd Awards/Scrolls for excellence in financial writing from CFA Institute. He has published over 150 scholarly articles on topics spanning investment finance, emerging markets, corporate finance, behavioral finance, financial econometrics, DeFi and computer science.
Harvey is a Founding Director of the Duke-CFO Survey. This widely watched quarterly survey polls over 1,500 CFOs worldwide.
Harvey serves Partner and Senior Advisor at Research Affiliates, LLC who oversees over $180 billion in client funds as well as Investment Strategy Advisor to the Man Group plc, the world’s largest, publicly listed, global hedge fund provider.
Harvey edited the Journal of Finance – the leading scientific journal in his field and one of the premier journals in the economic profession from 2006-2012.
Over the past seven years, Professor Harvey has taught Innovation and Cryptoventures at Duke University. The course focuses on blockchain technology and decentralized finance. He also teaches Tech Driven Transformation of Business as well as an advanced asset management course. His book, DeFi and the Future of Finance was published by John Wiley and Sons in the fall of 2021. He also offers four-course DeFi specialization on Coursera.
His publications can be found at http://people.duke.edu/~charvey/research.htm. Media links can be found at: https://faculty.fuqua.duke.edu/~charvey/Media/index.htm
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Current Appointments & Affiliations
Recent Publications
The evolution of decentralized exchange: Risks, benefits, and oversight
Journal Article Research Policy · April 1, 2026 A decentralized exchange, or DEX, is an application deployed on a blockchain that allows investors to exchange digital assets. We focus on the most prominent type of DEX, an Automated Market Maker (AMM), where at pricing terms are determined by a preset ex ... Full text CiteRegimes
Journal Article Journal of Portfolio Management · February 1, 2026 We propose a new systematic method for detecting the current economic regime and show how to use this information for predicting returns. Rather than presupposing a set of possible regimes, we rely on economic state variables and determine at which histori ... Full text CiteThe Best Strategies for FX Hedging
Journal Article Journal of Portfolio Management · August 1, 2025 The question of whether, when, and how to hedge foreign exchange (FX) risk has been a vexing one for investors since the end of the Bretton Woods system in 1973. Our study provides a comprehensive empirical analysis of dynamic FX hedging strategies over se ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
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