Jay Chen, Ph.D., CFA
I am the Elnora H. & William B. Quarton Professor of Business Administration and Economics at Coe College.
Bio
I am originally from Taiwan. I came to the states to study business, but ended up getting a PhD in economics. I am also a CFA charterholder.
I self-published three books: one on stock market strategies and two on Python. Check them out.I was trained as an economist, but have broad interests in economics, finance, technology and entrepreneurship.
Education
- PhD, International Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2010
- MBA, University of California, Irvine, 2003
- BS, Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, 1996
Papers
- Can Coase govern the Green Bay Packers? Managerial Finance, Vol. 41 Iss: 3, pp.328 - 342, with student Manish Khadka
- Fade the Gap: Odds Favor Mean Reversion, working paper presented at 2015 EFA annual meetings, with student Tim Palmer
- FinTech and Asymmetric Information: the Case of Lending Club, working paper presented at 2019 MEA annual meetings, with student Junjie Lei
- Size Matters or Risks Pay: Learning from the Texas University Endowment, working paper presented at 2021 MEA annual meetings
Student Senior Theses
- "Do Value Investors Walk The Walk? The Case of The Baupost Group", Anh Nguyen, 2023
- "The Trade-Off Theory of Control in Startup Funding: A Study of Dual-Class Stock IPOs and Venture Capital", Collin Johnson, 2016
- "Employee Behavior: Factors that Influence Contribution Amount in a College Setting", Meghan McClimon, 2016
- "The Dow: Risk and the Return Paradox", Anthony Peterson, 2016, published in Midwest Journal of Undergraduate Research, Issue 7, 2017, pp.205 - 222
- "Mean Reversion and Price Momentum in U.S. Equity Markets", Timothy Palmer, 2015