Steven Shu-Hsiu Chen

I am an Assistant Professor of Finance at Western Washington University (WWU) and have taught undergraduate, MBA, and doctoral-level courses in Finance and Economics. Before joining WWU, I served at Texas A&M International University as tenure-track faculty, where I contributed to the financial undergraduate curriculum reorganization, designed two new courses, supervised Ph.D. students, and developed a new banking academy as a task force. I was also awarded the "Scale Instructional Excellence for Student Success" from the Texas A&M University System. I received my Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Houston. 

My broader research interests are in empirical asset pricing, especially related to international finance, foreign exchange markets, fixed-income markets, financial institutions and banking, and sustainable finance. Recently, my co-authored research on synthetic options for the corporate bond markets has been published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. My single-authored research papers have been published in the Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, Economics Letters, Finance Research Letters, and Applied Economics. Moreover, my co-authored academic papers have been published in the International Journal of Managerial Finance,  Finance Research Letters, and Applied Economics.

I worked in the industry as a currency trader and macroeconomic analyst at Cathay Life Insurance, a quantitative analyst/securitization arranger at China Development Industrial Bank, and a fixed-income trading system developer at KGI Securities (Taiwan).

Academic Degrees: 

 Ph.D.: Finance, University of Houston, Texas, U.S.

 MBA: Finance, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.

 BBA: Management Information Systems; minor in International Business, National Chengchi University, Taiwan.