Yi-Kai Chen's Curriculum Vitae 

Education:

• • Ph.D. in Finance, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA, 1997-2001.

  • MBA, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA, 1996-1997.

  • BS in Earth Sciences, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, 1991-1995

Experience

• • Professor, Department of Finance & Dean, General Affairs Division, 2024/08 – present, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

  • Professor, Department of Finance, 2016/08 – present, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

  • Professor & Chair, Department of Finance, 2021/02 – 2024/01, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

  • Independent Director, I-Serve Holding Ltd., 2018/09/26-2021/01/08, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

  • Professor & Director, Executive Management Training (EMBA, EMLBA, IEMBA) Center, 2017/08 - 2018/06/26, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

  • Associate Professor, Department of Finance, 2011/08 – 2016/07, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

  • Independent Director, Chinatrust Securities Co., Ltd., 2011/05/20 – 2017/05/24, Taipei, Taiwan.

  • Independent Director, Yusin Holding Co., 2014/05/26 - 2017/02/28, Xiamen 361100, China.

  • Committee Member, Institutional Review Board (IRB), E-Da Hospital, 2014/01/01 – present, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

  • Committee Member, Biobank, E-Da Hospital, 2015/01/01 – present, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

  • Commissioner, Kaohsiung City Industrial Park Development Costs Sub Committee, Kaohsiung City Government, 2023/03/31 – 2023/12/31, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

  • Commissioner, Kaohsiung City Public Debt Administration Committee, Kaohsiung City Government, 2020/08/24 – 2023/04/29, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

  • Commissioner, Land Development Fund Management Committee of the Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit System, Kaohsiung City Government, 2013/01/01 – 2016/12/31, 2019/01/01 - 2020/12/31, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

  • Independent Director, Veden Detal Labs, Inc., 2012/11/10 – 2013/05/08, Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province, 519060 China.

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Finance, 2003/08 – 2011/07, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

  • Independent Director, CSBC Corporation, 2008/07/21 – 2010/12/16, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Business Administration, 2005-2007, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Business Administration and Education, taught Fundamentals of Finance, International Finance, Investment Analysis, Long-Term Financing, and Financial Institutions, 2001 –2003, Emporia State University, Kansas, U.S.A.

  • Course Instructor, Capital Budgeting, developed and taught the course, Summer 2000 and Spring 2001, Drexel University, Philadelphia, U.S.A.

  • Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Finance, taught on average 2 recitation sessions per quarter, 1999-2000, Drexel University, Philadelphia, U.S.A.

  • Course Instructor, Capital Budgeting, developed the study schedule, guidelines, and examinations for an online course, 1998, Philadelphia, Washington International University, U.S.A.

  • Instructor, Investment Management, introduced and ran trading simulation using Financial Trading System (FTS) software for Executive MBA students, March 18th, 2000, Drexel University, Philadelphia, U.S.A.

  • Instructor, taught Business Simulation in Executive Finance Program for the Shanghai Port Authority, October 20 - November 5, 1997, Drexel University, Philadelphia, U.S.A.

Publications:

• • Tsung-Hsiu Tsai, Yi-Kai Chen, Ting-Ru Chen, Tsung-Cheng Wang (2024), " Does Excess Speculative Lending Improve Bank Performance?" Journal of Futures and Options, Vol. 17, Issue 3, 37-90. (TSSCI) (in Chinese)

  • Yi-Kai Chen, Ming-Che Chuang, Cheng-Han Li (2023), "Do Capital Buffers Reduce Bank Default Risk? " Journal of Futures and Options, Vol. 16, Issue 1, 93-141. (TSSCI) (in Chinese)

  • Yi-Kai Chen, Chung-Hua Shen, Lan-Feng Kao, and Chuan-Yi Yeh (2018), "Bank Liquidity Risk and Performance," Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies,  Vol. 21, No. 1, 1850007(40). (EconLit, FLI).

  • Yi-Kai Chen, Yang Li, Shew-Huei Kuo, and Fang-Wei Lee (2018)," Entrenchment Effect of Controlling Shareholders on Diversification of Global Banks ," Journal of Management and Business Research, Vol. 35, Issue 3, 267-306. (TSSCI)

  • Yi-Kai Chen, Lan-Feng Kao, Anlin Chen, and Mei-Chun Lin (2017 Sept), "A Study on FairValue Pricing Models of Emerging Stock," Cross-Strait Banking and Finance, Vol. 5, Issue 3, 113-158.

  • Chen, Yi-Kai, Amy Yueh-Fang Ho, Li-Ju Wang (2016), "Does Earnings Management Explain the Long-Term Performance of Capital Reduction Firms? " International Review of Accounting, Banking,and Finance, Vol. 8, Issue 1, P.54-78. (Econlit)

  • Chen, Yi-Kai,  Yang Li, Feng Sheng Chien (2016) "The Impact of Capital Requirement on Bank Operating Efficiency: An Application of the Bootstrapped Truncated Regression Model," Journal of Financial Studies, Vol. 24, Issue 4, P.19-46. (TSSCI)

  •  Li, Yang, Feng Sheng  Chien, Yi-Kai Chen, Wen Chih Lee, and Yi Ching Hsu (June, 2016), "Study of optimal capital adequacy ratios," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Vol. 45, Issue 3, P.261-274. (SSCI)

  • Chen, Yi-Kai, Amy Yueh-Fang Ho, and Ching-Lan Hsu (2014), "Are Bank Capital Buffers Cyclical? Evidence for Developed and Developing Countries, " Journal of Financial Studies, Vol. 22, No. 3, P.27-56. (TSSCI) (第六屆聯電經營管理論文獎佳作獎)

  • Anlin Chen, Kao, Lanfeng, Yi-Kai Chen, and Wan-Yu Chen (2013), "Share Collateralization by Directors and Corporate Governance", Sun Yat-Sen Management Review，Vol. 21, No. 2, P.229-337. (TSSCI)

  • Kao, Lanfeng, Yi-Kai Chen, Mei-Lian Chen (January 2011), "Agency Problems and Accounting Conservatism," Journal of Accounting Review, Vol. 52. P. 103-136. (TSSCI) (in Chinese)

  • Chen, Yi-Kai and Yi-Chen Lin (October, 2010)，"Income and Loan Perspectives: Do Taiwan Banks Benefit from Diversification?" Management Review, Vol. 29, No. 4, P. 39-68. (TSSCI) (in Chinese)

  • Gombola, Michael J., Amy Yueh-Fang Ho, and Yi-Kai Chen (December 2009), "Earnings Management and Long-term Performance of Reverse Stock Splits," Corporate Ownership & Control, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp.420-439. (EconLit)

  • Chen, Yi-Kai, Lanfeng Kao, Alan T. Wang, and Ming-Hsuan Hsieh (Fall 2008), "Directorship, Collateralized Shares, Risk, and Performance of Taiwan Banking Industry," Corporate Ownership & Control, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp.57-71. (EconLit)

  • Chen, Anlin, Lanfeng Kao and Yi-Kai Chen (June 2007), "Agency Costs of Controlling Shareholders’Share Collateral with Taiwan Evidence," Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies, Vol. 10, No. 2, P.173-191 (EconLit, FLI).

  • Huang, Li-Wei and Yi-Kai Chen (2006), "Does Bank Performance Benefit from Non-traditional Activities? Case of Non-interest Incomes in Taiwan Commercial Banks," Asian Journal of Management and Humanity Sciences, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 359-378.

  • Edward C. Koziara, Chiou-Shuang Yan, and Yi-Kai Chen (2001). "Are Right-to-Work States Less Hospitable to Unions," International Business Trends, Academy of Business Administration, P.244-248.

Book Chapter

• • Shen, Chung-Hua, Yi-Kai Chen, and Bor-Yi Huang (2010). "Robust prediction of default risk?" Handbook of Quantitative Finance and Risk Management, Chapter 62, P. 965- 978, Springer, ISBN: 978-0-387-77116-8.

  • 陳怡凱與張家興 (2010). 大同奈陶瓷工業—台商海外企業融資決策，光華管理個案收錄庫 No. 1-10026-11-1

  • Chen, Yi-Kai. "Three Essays on Bank Efficiency," dissertation, 2001, Drexel University.

Conference Papers

• • Wen-Yen Huang, Chien-Ling Cheng, Yi-Kai Chen (2019/07), "The Enhanced and Improved Credit Scoring Model of Small and Medium-size Enterprise Loans," The 31st Asian Finance Association Annual Meeting, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

  • Yi-Kai Chen, Shao-Hsun Keng, Yin Jie Liang (2016), "Does Basel III Affect Banks’ Dividend Policy? Empirical Evidence of US Commercial Banks," The 24th Conference on the Theories and Practices of Securities and Financial Markets, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

  • Yi-Kai Chen, Tsang-Yao Chang, and Ju-Hong Teng (2015), "The Nonlinear Relationship between Directors’ Collateralized Shares and Firm’s Performance," 2015 3rd International Conference on Global Economics and Governance (2015 GEG), Taipei, Taiwan. 

  • Yi-Kai Chen, Chung-Hua Shen, Lan-Feng Kao, and Chuan-Yi Yeh (2015), "Bank Liquidity Risk and Performance," the 2nd Vietnam International Conference in Finance, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. 

  • Yi-Kai Chen, Amy Yueh-Fang Ho, and Ching-Lan Hsu (2013), "Are Bank Capital Buffers Cyclical? Evidence for Developed and Developing Countries, " The 6th NCTU International Finance Conference, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

  • Alan T. Wang and Yi-Kai Chen (2012), "An Investigation of How Systematic Market Risk Affects Default Probability," 2012 Financial Management Association International Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.

  • Yi-Kai Chen and Ching-Lan Hsu (2012), "Are Bank Capital Buffers Cyclical? Evidence for Developed and Developing Countries, " Asian Finance Association (Asian FA) and Taiwan Finance Association (TFA) 2012 Joint International Conference, Taipei, Taiwan.

  • Yi-Kai Chen and Ching-Lan Hsu (2011), "The Cyclical Behavior of Bank Capital Buffers – Evidence For Developed And Developing Countries," The 19th Conference on the Theories and Practices of Securities and Financial Markets, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

  • Yi-Kai Chen and I-Hao Chen (2011), "The Determinants Of Executive Compensation In The U.S. Financial Sector," The 2011 New Orleans International Business & Economics Conference, The Clute Institute, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

  • Yi-Kai Chen and Ching-Lan Hsu (2011), "The Cyclical Behavior Of Bank Capital Buffers – Evidence For Developed And Developing Countries," The 2011 New Orleans International Business & Economics Conference, The Clute Institute, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

  • Chung-Hua Shen, Yi-Kai Chen, Lan-Feng Kao, and Chuan-Yi Yeh (2010), "Bank Liquidity Risk and Performance," Asian Finance Association 2010 International Conference, Hong Kong.

  • Chung-Hua Shen, Yi-Kai Chen, Lan-Feng Kao, and Chuan-Yi Yeh (2009), "Bank Liquidity Risk and Performance," 2009 The 17th Conference on the Theories and Practices of Securities and Financial Markets, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

  • Chih-Chieh Chang and Yi-Kai Chen (2009), "Causality of Bank Liquidity Creation and Economic Growth from Multinational Perspectives, " 2009 International Applied Business Research (IABR) Conference, San Antonio, Texas, March 2009.

  • Lin, Yi-Chen and Yi-Kai Chen (2008), "Should Banks Diversify in Taiwan? Loans and Incomes Perspectives." International Conference on Business and Information (BAI2008), Seoul, South Korea.

  • Hsieh, Ming- Hsuan and Yi-Kai Chen (2008), "The Relationship between the Collateralized Shares, Credit risk Management and Performance in the Taiwanese Banking Industry." International Conference on Business and Information (BAI2008), Seoul, South Korea.

  • Chen, Anlin, Yi-Kai Chen, Lanfeng Kao, and Wenchih Lee (2008), "Dividend Policy and the Elimination of Dividend Double Taxation, " 2008 American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, USA.

  • Shen, Chung-Hua and Yi-Kai Chen (2008), "Robust prediction of default risk?" 2008 Conference on Quantitative Finance and Risk Management, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.

  • Ho, Amy, Edward Nelling, and Yi-Kai Chen (2007), "Earnings Management and Long-term Performance: Evidence from Reverse Stock Splits" 2007 The 15th Conference on the Theories and Practices of Securities and Financial Markets, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

  • Chen, Yi-Kai, Li-Wei Huang, and Amy Yueh-Fang Ho (2006), "Is Bank Performance Benefited from Non-interest Activities? Case of Commercial Banks in Taiwan" 2006 The 14th Conference on the Theories and Practices of Securities and Financial Markets, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

  • Ho, Amy Yueh-Fang, Edward Nelling, and Yi-Kai Chen (2006), "Earnings Management and Long-term Performance of Reverse Stock Splits" 2006 Southern Finance Association Annual Meeting, Destin, Florida.

  • Wilson, Alex H., Eric J. Higgins, and Yi-Kai Chen (2005), "The Sensitivity of CEO Compensation to Firm Performance" 2005 The 13th Conference on the Theories and Practices of Securities and Financial Markets, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

  • Ho, Amy Yueh-Fang, Edward Nelling, and Yi-Kai Chen (2005), "Earnings Management and Long-term Performance of Reverse Stock Splits" 2005 Financial Management Association International Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.

  • Wilson, Alex H., Eric J. Higgins, and Yi-Kai Chen (2005), "The Sensitivity of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Compensation to Firm Performance" 2005 The 16th Asian Finance Association (Asian FA) Annual Meeting, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (NSC 94I4FA1400013)

  • Chen, Yi-Kai, Joseph R. Mason, and Eric J. Higgins (2005), "Is Bank Efficiency Cyclical? The relationship between Monetary Policy, Economic Growth and Bank Performance" June 3-4, 2005 Bank Conference “Bank Relationships, Credit Extension, and the Macroeconomy”, the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), the Journal of Financial Intermediation (JFI), and the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Berlin, Germany.

  • Chen, Yi-Kai, Joseph R. Mason, and Eric J. Higgins (2003), "Economics of Scale in the Banking Industry: The Effects of Loan Specialization" 2003 Pacific Basin Finance, Economics and Accounting 11th Annual Conference, Taipei, Taiwan.

  • Edward Nelling and Yi-Kai Chen (2003), "Reverse Stock Split, Microstructure Effects and a Nonparametric Analysis of the Ex Date Return," 2003 Financial Management Association International Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado.

  • Chen, Yi-Kai and Eric J. Higgins (2003), "Arbitrage Opportunities of ADRs with Price Limits in the Foreign Underlying Securities Exchange" 2003 Midwest Finance Association Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri

  • Chen, Yi-Kai, Joseph R. Mason, and Eric J. Higgins (2002), "Does Bank Efficiency Change with Macro Economy?" 2002 Southern Financial Association Annual Meeting, Key West, Florida.

  • Chen, Yi-Kai, Joseph R. Mason, and Eric J. Higgins (2001), "Economics of Scale in the Banking Industry: The Effects of Loan Specialization" 2001 Southern Finance Association Annual Meeting, Destin, Florida.

  • Chen, Yi-Kai, Joseph R. Mason, and Eric J. Higgins (2001), "Does Bank Efficiency Change with the Business Cycle? The Relationship between Monetary Policy, Economic Growth, and Bank Condition," 2001 Financial Management Association International Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario.

  • Cristina Montero, Edward C. Koziara, Chiou-Shuang Yan, and Yi-Kai Chen (2001), "The Euro at Two," 2001 the Academy of Business Administration, Lisbon, August.

  • Edward C. Koziara, Chiou-Shuang Yan, and Yi-Kai Chen (2001), "Are Right-to-Work States Less Hospitable to Unions," 2001 the Academy of Business Administration, Lisbon, August, 2001.

  • Chen, Yi-Kai, Joseph R. Mason, and Eric J. Higgins (2000), "Do Agricultural Activities Matter to the Efficiency of U.S. Banks? Evidence from Pennsylvania, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Texas, and California between 1988 and 1997," 2000 Financial Management Association International Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington.

  • Verzilli, Andrew G. and Yi-Kai Chen et. al. (1998), "Asian Crisis – The Economic Impact: An Interdisciplinary Approach," Pennsylvania Economic Association 1998 Conference, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

  • Chen, Yi-Kai and Jiin-Shuh Jean (1994), "The variation and mechanism of the shape of interface between freshwater and saltwater due to seawater intrusion causing by pumping," 1994 Annual Meeting of Geological Society of China, Taipei, Taiwan.