Steven Shu-Hsiu Chen

Assistant Professor of Finance

About

Steven Shu-Hsiu Chen is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Western Washington University (WWU) and has taught undergraduate, MBA, and doctoral-level courses in Finance and Economics. Before joining WWU, Steven served at Texas A&M International University, where he contributed to the reorganization of the undergraduate financial curriculum, designed new courses, supervised Ph.D. students, and developed a new banking academy as part of a task force. He was also awarded the "Scale Instructional Excellence for Student Success" from the Texas A&M University System. He received his Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Houston.

 

Steven's broader research interests encompass empirical asset pricing, with a focus on international finance, foreign exchange markets, fixed-income markets, financial institutions and banking, as well as sustainable finance. Recently, his co-authored research on synthetic options for the corporate bond markets has been published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. His single-authored and co-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.

 

Steven 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). He earned the Financial Risk Manager certification and passed the second of three tests for the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.