Harold L. Vogel was ranked as top entertainment industry analyst for
ten years by Institutional Investor magazine, was the senior
entertainment industry analyst at Merrill Lynch for seventeen years, and was
inducted into the magazine s All-America Research Team Hall of Fame in 2011. He
is a chartered financial analyst (C. F. A.) and served on the New York State
Governor s Motion Picture and Television Advisory Board and as an adjunct
professor at Columbia University s Graduate School of Business. He also taught
at the University of Southern California and at the Cass Business School in
London. He earned his Ph. D. in financial economics from the University of
London, an M. B. A. in finance from Columbia, and an M. A. in economics from
New York University. Currently, he heads an independent investment and
consulting firm in New York City while often writing and speaking on investment
topics related to travel, entertainment and media, and extreme market events. Harold Vogel is the author
of Financial Market Bubbles and Crashes (2010) and Entertainment
Industry Economics 9th edition (2015), both published by
Cambridge University Press, and Travel Industry Economics 3nd
edition (2016) published by Springer
