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Nai-fu CHEN
Adjunct Professor
Email: fnnchen@ust.hk

Ph.D. (Finance); 1981 Graduate School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles.
MBA Program, 1977-1978 Graduate School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles
Postdoctoral Fellow in Numerical Analysis (NASA), 1975-1976 Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, California
Ph.D. in Numerical Analysis, 1975 Mathematics Department, University of California, Berkeley
A.B. in Mathematics, 1972 Mathematics Department, University of California, Berkeley


ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
  • Professor of Finance, Department of Finance, School of Business and Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 1990 - present
  • Professor of Finance, Graduate School of Management, University of California, Irvine 1989 - present
  • Docent, Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Helsinki, Finlandt, 1991 - present
  • Visiting Professor, Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven, Belgium, Spring 1987
  • Associate Professor of Finance, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, 1985-1989
  • Assistant Professor of Finance, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, 1981-1985
  • Lecturer (part-time), Graduate School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles, 1979-1980
  • Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department, University of Southern California , 1976-1978


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • "The Hong Kong Currency Board During the 1997-8 Crisis: Problems and Solutions," International Review of Finance 2 (2001), 99-112.
  • "An Intertemporal Currency Board," with Alex Chan, Pacific Economic Review 4 , 1999, vol. 2, 215-232.
  • "Risk and Return of Value Stocks," with Feng Zhang, Journal of Business 71, 1998, 501-535.
  • "Stock Volatility and the Levels of the Basis and Open Interest in Futures Contracts" with Charles Cuny and Robert Haugen, Journal of Finance 50, March 1995, 281-300.
  • "Are the Discounts on Closed-end Funds a Sentiment Index?" with Raymond Kan and Merton Miller, Journal of Finance 48, June 1993, 795-800, 809-10.
  • "Financial Investment Opportunities and the Macroeconomy," Journal of Finance 46, September 1991, 1467-84.
  • "Structural and Return Characteristics of Small and Large Firms," with K.C. Chan, Journal of Finance 46, June 1991, 529-54.
  • "Economic Forces and the Stock Market," with R. Roll and S. Ross, Journal of Business 59, 1986, 383-403.
  • "Some Empirical Tests of the Theory of Arbitrage Pricing," Journal of Finance 38, December 1983, 1393-1414.
  • "Exact Pricing in Linear Factor Models with Finitely Many Assets: A Note," with J. Ingersoll, Journal of Finance 38, June 1983, 985-988.