Hsiu-lang Chen

    Email Address: hsiulang@uic.edu
    College: Business Administration Department: Finance
    Title: Associate Professor
    Office: 2425 UH Phone: 355-1024
    Participating in the Chancellor’s Undergraduate Research Awards program: Yes

    Research Interest:
    Mutual Funds/Hedge Funds/ETFs
    Information Diffusion across the supply chain
    Investment Style Migration

    Minimum time commitment in hours per week: 10

    Qualifications of a Student:
    1. You have completed Fin 412 Portfolio Management.
    2. You are good at programming.
    3. You have taken some courses in statistics or econometrics.

    Brief Summary of what is expected from the student:
    1. Retrieve data from the service provided by WRDS.wharton.upenn.edu.
    2. Analyze the data

    This experience will allow you to understand what empirical research in Finance is all about, and help you decide whether you might like to pursue it later in your career. If research is for you, then this experience will prepare you for graduate school, but even if you aren't interested in graduate school, you will learn many investment strategies and have deep understanding about the financial market.

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