Hong-Jen Lin
Assistant Professor
Finance and Business Management
Location: 506 Whitehead Hall
Phone: 718.951.5000 x1537
Fax: 718.951.4385
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Hong-Jen Abraham Lin joined Brooklyn College in 2007. Lin devotes his research efforts to the issues related to risk management and technology management of insurance and banking firms across nations. His scholarly work has been printed by a British and a German companies and published in professional journals such as Multinational Finance Journal, International Finance, Managerial Finance, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, North American Actuarial Journal, 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 Actuaries 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, risk management, technology management, modeling and forecasting.
Books and Publications
"Trends of Future Integration of Commercial Banking Between Taiwan and China After ECFA." Economic Integration Across the Taiwan Strait in Global Perspective. Ed. Peter C.Y. Chow. Edward Elgar Publishing Co. March 31. ISBN-13: 978-0857939722. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2013
Mohanty, Sunil K., Winston T. Lin, and Hong-Jen Lin (2013), "Measuring Cost Efficiency in Presence of Heteroskedasticity: The Case of the Banking Industry in Taiwan" Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, forthcoming. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2013
Lin, Hong-Jen, Min-Ming Wen and Winston T. Lin. "The Relationships between Information Technology, E-Commerce, and E-Finance in the Financial Institutions: Evidence from the Insurance Industry." 4th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems. Proceedings published by Springer Publishing Co. (ACIIDS-2012). 194-206. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2012
Chen, Y.H., Winston T. Lin and Hong-Jen Lin. "Technological Progresses and Time-Varying Patterns of Cost Efficiencies in Commercial Banks: An International Comparison." International Journal of Finance 23.3: 6915-77. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2011
Lin, H.J., Min-Ming Wen and Charles C. Yang. "Risk Management, Cost Efficiency and Frontier in Property Liability Insurance Companies." North American Actuarial Journal 15.4, 487-98. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2011
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
Lin, H.J. "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 "Dynamic Factor Model Analysis on the Cash Flows of Investment and Hedging Strategies of the U.S. Insurance Industry," with Min-Ming Wen, Patricia Born and Chun Wang. 2013-14. (Grants and Fellowships) 2012
New Faculty Fund, for "Transaction Costs of International Stock Markets." March 15-June 30. (Grants and Fellowships) 2010
PSC-CUNY Award # 63415-00 41, for "Effects of Credit Default Swaps and Reinsurance on Risk-Taking Behaviors and Cost Efficiency of the Insurance Industries in the United States." July 1, 2010- June 30, 2011. (Grants and Fellowships) 2010
CUNY New Faculty Fund, for "Efficiency Analysis." March 15-June 30. (Grants and Fellowships) 2009
PSC-CUNY Award # 62088-00 40 (Regular-Track), for "Cost and Profit Efficiency of Banks in China: The Impacts of Joining into WTO and Basel II." July 1, 2009-June 30, 2010. (Grants and Fellowships) 2009
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
Presentation: "Ch. 4 Trends of Future Integration of Commercial Banking Between Taiwan and China After ECFA." Taiwan Pen Club Livingston, NJ, April 21. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
Mohanty, Sunil K., Hong-Jen Lin, Eid A. Aljuhani and Hisham J. Bardesi. "Banking Efficiency in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries: A Comparative Study." annual conference of Eastern Economic Association in New York City, May 9. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
Mohanty, Sunil K., Hong-Jen Lin, Eid A. Aljuhani and Hisham J. Bardesi. "Islamic Banking in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries: A Comparative Efficiency Study." the 49th Annual Conference of Eastern Finance Association, April 13 , St. Pete Beach, FL. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
Mohanty, Sunil K., Hong-Jen Lin, Eid A. Aljuhani and Hisham J. Bardesi. "Banking Efficiency in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries: A Comparative Study." 20th Annual Conference on Pacific Basin Finance, Economics, Accounting, and Management (PBFEAM). Rutgers University, New Jersey, Sept. 8. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012
Mohanty, Sunil K., Winston T. Lin and Hong-Jen Lin. "Measuring Cost and Profit Efficiency of Banks: An Application of Heteroskedastic Stochastic Frontier (HSF) Analysis." Eastern Finance Association Annual Meeting. Boston, April 14. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012
"The Global Economy and the Investment Strategies" panel discussion. Forum of World Economy and Investments, hosted by firsttrade.com and the World Journal (the most popular Chinese newspaper in North America). New York, July 9. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
"After the Memorandum of Understanding: The Integration of Banking Industry Between Taiwan and China." 52nd Annual Conference of the American Association for Chinese Studies. Winston-Salem, N.C., Oct. 16. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
"Banks in China: An Analysis of Cost and Profit Analysis." Banking Liberalization, Corporate Governance and FDI Entry mini international conference. Kaohsiung, Taiwan, March 31. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
"On the MOU and ECFA Between Taiwan and China: The Perspective From Efficiency Analysis of Commercial Banks." Annual Conference of Chinese American Academic & Professional Society. Flushing, N.Y., Aug. 21. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010
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
