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Hong-Jen Lin

Assistant Professor   Department: Economics   Location: 216 Whitehead Hall   Phone: 718-951-5000 x2094   Fax: 718-951-4867   Email:

Hong-Jen Lin joined Brooklyn College in 2007. Lin devotes his research efforts to international financial and banking integration, efficiency analysis and technology management of financial instutions, risk management of insurance companies, and empirical and theoretical asset pricing. His scholarly work has been printed by a German company and published in such professional journals as Multinational Finance Journal, International Finance, Managerial Finance, Asian Pacific Journal of Risk and Insurance, Journal of Comparative International Management, International Journal of Finance and Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce. He has lectured in seminars and academic conferences in China, Taiwan and Australia. Moreover, he has been granted research awards by the Society of Actuarity and PSC-CUNY, and won Long-Term Thesis Award from Acer Inc. Education: Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo - 2004 (Management Science) M.B.A., National Sun Yat-Sen University - 1993 (Finance) B.A., National Taiwan University - 1991 (Finance ) Areas of Expertise: Financial institutions, international finance, asset pricing, modeling and forecasting, business ethics. Books and Publications Lin, Hong-Jen and Winston T. Lin. IT and Efficiency Analysis in Commercial Banks and Insurance Firms: A Global Comparison. Verlag Dr. Muller Publishing Company. (Books and Publications: Book) 2009 Lin, Hong-Jen, Patricia Born, Charles C. Yang and Min-Ming Wen. "The Dynamic Interactions between Risk Management, Capital Management, and Financial Management in the U.S. Property/Liability Insurance Industry." Asia-Pacific Journal of Risk and Insurance 4.1. Article 2 available at http://www.bepress.com/apjri/vol4/iss1/2. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2009 Lin, Hong-Jen, Winston T. Lin and Sunil K. Mohanty. "The Cost and Profit Efficiencies and Scope Economies of Commercial Banks: Evidence from Taiwan and China." International Journal of Finance 21.2: 6097-123. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2009 "The Strategies of International E-Finance under Basel II: A Complementary Asset Approach." Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce 12.3. Available at www.arraydev.com/commerce/jibc/. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007 Lin, Hong-Jen, and Winston T. Lin. "International E-Banking: ICT Investments and the Basel Accord." Journal of Comparative International Management 10.1: 23-39. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007 Lin, Hong-Jen and David C. VanderLinden. "Parables, Premium Puzzles, and Asset Pricing." Managerial Finance 32 .10: 792-801. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006 Lin, Hong-Jen and Winston T. Lin. "International Productivity Paradox of IT in Commercial Banking: A Cost Efficiency Analysis." Business Review, Cambridge, 5.1: 246-52. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006 Lin, Winston T., Hong-Jen Lin and Yueh H. Chen. "The Dynamics and Stochastics of Currency Betas Based on the Unbiasedness Hypothesis in Foreign Exchange Market." Multinational Finance Journal 6.3: 167-95. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2002 Lin, Hong-Jen and Winston T. Lin. "A Dynamic and Stochastic Beta and Its Implications in Global Capital Markets." International Finance 3.1: 123-60. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2000 Awards, Honors and Fellowships Society of Actuaries grant, for "An Application of Structural Equation Modeling on the Linkage of Risk Management, Capital Management, and Financial Management for Insurance Industry." Min Ming Wen (project chair), Hong-Jen Lin and Patricia Born, 2006-07. Proceedings available at www.soa.org/research/risk-management/research-application-structural-equation.aspx. (Grants and Fellowships) 2006 Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums Lin, Hong-Jen,Charles Yang, Patricia Born and Min-Ming Wen. "Regulatory Effects on the Dynamic Interactions between Risk Management, Capital Management, and Financial Management in the U.S. Property/Liability Insurance Industry." American Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting. August 5. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009 Lin, Hong-Jen and Winston T. Lin. "Banks in China: An Analysis of Cost and Profit Efficiencies." Annual conference of the Eastern Economics Association. Boston, March 7. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008 "Nonlinear SUR vs. Nonlinear OLS in Forecasting Foreign Exchange Rates: A Case of Dynamic Speed of Adjustment." 27th International Symposium on Forecasting. June 25. Available for members of International Institute of Forecasting. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007