Department Highlights
Have professional teaching equipment and excellent teachers
Instructional Equipment
Our department has a professional center for financial learning and certification centers, which combines the common concepts of business ethics courses in the college of business, the Corporate Governance Database of the Commerce and Information Center, and the Virtual Financial Market Operating Software of the Department of Finance. This allows us to have a comprehensive teaching system.
Instructional System：
XQ Global Winner System – provides students with real-time securities and futures data and abundant research content.
TEJ TSE & OTC Listed Company Data Base – provides students with the necessary data for research and abundant research content.
CMoney Investment Decision Analysis System – provides students with backtesting of investment strategies to enhance strategic feasibility.
COMPUSTAT ON S&P CAPITAL IQ Financial Database – provides students with global market data to increasingly conduct research on global market correlations.
Certification Exam Simulation System – provides students with simulated professional certification exams to effectively increase the certificate qualification rate.
Investment Simulation Competition System – provides students with simulated investment markets to increase practical experience in market operations.
Excellent faculty
The faculty’s teaching and research outputs of our department cover various disciplines in finance：
Corporate finance
Financial institutions (banks)
Securities markets
Fintech, real estate, and insurance
Performance of our faculty in teaching：
Our school received the highest subsidy for comprehensive private universities under the “Education SPROUT Project” by the Ministry of Education.
Several faculty members in our department have been honored as excellent teachers by the university.
Our young and enthusiastic faculty members have rich teaching experience, with almost all of them having at least ten years of experience in teaching.
Performance of faculty in academic research：
Several faculty members in the department have published academic papers in high-level international finance and economics journals.
The faculty members of our department excel in receiving research grants from the National Science and Technology Council every year:
From the academic year 2017 to 2022, 43 research projects received grants totaling NT$34,987,895 from the Ministry of Science and Technology.
In terms of the average number of approved projects or grant amounts, our department is ranked the top 20% of finance and economics departments in Taiwan.
Performance of faculty in service and counseling：
Young and passionate faculty.
Several faculty members in our department have been awarded as outstanding mentors at the university or college level.
Many faculty members in the department have rich administrative experience.
Financial License Examination Center
Our department was awarded the “Excellence in Teaching Award” by the Ministry of Education in the academic year of 2007. We are planning to establish a Financial Certification Examination Center to enhance students’ ability to obtain financial-related certifications.
Main Certificate question bank：
sales representative in future company、Securities Specialist、Senior Securities Specialist、Proficiency Test for Financial Planning Personnel、Proficiency Test for Trust Operations Personnel、Securities Investment Trust and Consulting Professionals、Enterprise Internal Control Basic Ability、Proficiency Test for Bank Internal Control and Audit、Basic Proficiency Test for Bank Lending Personnel、Basic Proficiency Test for International Banking Personnel.
Closed cooperation/collaboration with industry
Mega International Commercial Bank Employment Program：
Course Name | Credit | Class / YEAR | MEMO | |
Foundation Studies Programs | Economics l & ll | 6 | Each Department of the College of Business/ Freshman year of college. | |
Financial Accounting I & ll | 6 | Each Department of the College of Business/ Freshman year of college. | ||
Corporate Governance | 3 | Department of Finance /Junior year, second semester | ||
practical curriculum | Seminar on Banking Practice | 3 | Department of Finance / Senior year, first semester | Mega International Commercial Bank Sending Lecturers to Teach |
Taiwan Stock Exchange employment Program：
Course Name | Credit | Class / Characteristic | MEMO | |
Basic of Finance course | Financial Market | 3 | Department of Finance /Junior year, second semester | |
Investment | 3 | Department of Finance / Senior year, first semester | ||
Practical Finance Course | Real Estate Economice | 3 | Department of Finance / Senior year, first semester | |
Cases in Banking Management | 3 | Department of Finance / Senior year, second semester | ||
Seminar in Finance | Seminar on Finance | 3 | Department of Finance / Fourth year of college., second semester |
Taiwan Depository & Clearing Corporation employment Program：
Course Name | Credit | Class / Characteristic | MEMO | |
Basic of Finance course | Investment | 3 | Department of Finance / Senior year, first semester | |
Practical Finance Course | Financial Technology | 3 | Department of Finance / Senior year, first semester | |
Security Analysis and Investment Management | 3 | Department of Finance / Senior year, second semester | ||
Seminar in Finance | Seminar on Finance | 3 | Department of Finance / Fourth year of college., second semester |
Corporate Internship：
National Taxation Bureau of the Central Area internship、The Shanghai Commercial & Savings Bank、President Securities Corporation、First Securities Inc.、Capital Futures Corp.、Hua Nan Investment Trust Corp.、Nan Shan Life Insurance Co. and China Life Insurance Co.
Outstanding Academic Research Performance of Teachers
Outstanding Academic Research Performance of Finance Department Faculty Members: Approved Grant Funding from the National Science and Technology Council.
From the academic year 2017 to 2024, a total of 44 research projects received grants totaling NT$49,730,895 from the Ministry of Science and Technology.
In terms of the average number of approved projects or grant amounts, the department ranks among the top 15% of finance and economics departments in Taiwan.
School year | Project Director | GOV-Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan |
113 | Yu-Lun Chen | Where does the magnet effect of price limits occur firstly in Taiwan stock market? |
113 | Yu-Lun Chen | Interest rate marketization and dynamic price discovery in Chinese financial markets |
113 | Ming-Che Hu | Information type, Investor heterogeneity and Lottery-like anomaly |
113 | Yen-Hsien Lee | Research on the Relationship between Herd Behavior and Investor Psychological Bias |
113 | Shu-Hen Chiang | New directions in time-varying housing spillovers: Estimations from multiple-variable spillovers |
113 | Wen- Chien Liu | The Real Effects of Media Power and Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Provision: Evidences from Conflicts of Interests before and after Financial Distress |
113 | Hung-Chun Liu | The role of crypto fear-greed index in the correlation between cryptocurrencies and traditional assets |
112 | Han-Ching Huang | The Relationship Among passive institutional ownership, corporate event, and insider trading |
112 | Ming-Che Hu | The impact of institutional investors on post–earnings announcement drift evidence from Taiwan market |
112 | Shen-Feng Luo | On simulation-based American option pricing with machine learning |
112 | Yen-Hsien Lee | The impact of psychological biases on financial markets |
112 | Hung-Chun Liu | Going green: Climate risk and sustainable cryptocurrencies |
111 | Han-Ching Huang | The impacts of investment horizons on the signals and patterns of insider trading |
111 | Yu-Lun Chen | Price efficiency and liquidity in US Treasury bond futures and the related ETF markets |
111 | Chia-Chen Teng | Electronic voting, shareholder activism, and dividend policy |
111 | Ming-Che Hu | Earnings Momentum: Evidence form Firms’ Time Zones and Overnight Returns |
111 | Yen-Hsien Lee | The Effect of the Credit Market for Financial Development on Economic Growth |
111 | Ya-Kai Chang | Stock liquidity, short selling, information disclosure and capital structure adjustments |
111 | Wen- Chien Liu | Conflicts of Interests before and after Financial Distress: Evidences from Appointment-based CEO Connectedness, Executive Lawyers, and Federal Judge Ideology |
111 | Hung-Chun Liu | Non-fungible tokens and Cryptocurrencies’ price crash risk |
110 | Shen-Feng Luo | On dynamic mean-variance portfolios with a possibility of market crash |
110 | Shu-Hen Chiang | An inquiry into overheated housing markets: bubbles, ripple effects and systemic risk |
110 | Wen- Chien Liu | The Real Effects of Credit Rating Agencies: Evidences from Recovery Rates and Bankruptcy Resolution |
110 | Hung-Chun Liu | Sentiment disagreement and cryptocurrency market’s investment behaviors |
109 | Han-Ching Huang | The Relationship among Shareholder Investment Horizon, Insider Investment Horizon, and Corporate Event |
109 | Yu-Lun Chen | Information transmission and price discovery in currency markets |
109 | Ya-Kai Chang | Financial reporting complexity, investor sentiment and stock prices |
109 | Wen- Chien Liu | Common Ownership and Conflicts of Interests before and after Financial Distress |
108 | Han-Ching Huang | Decoding Insider Silence |
108 | Shen-Feng Luo | The pricing of discrete derivatives with barriers in a stochastic interest rate environment |
108 | Yi-Hua Li | Is the Board Efficient? Examining the Impact of the Board Quality on Information Disclosure and Brand Value |
108 | Ya-Kai Chang | Two issues of algorithmic trading |
108 | Shu-Hen Chiang | Time-varying spillovers of real estate market: New evidence from Chinese cities |
108 | Wen- Chien Liu | Financial Distress, Firm Innovation, and Family Firm |
107 | Han-Ching Huang | Is insider silence really silent? |
107 | Yi-Pei Chen | Multiple Large Shareholders, Information Asymmetry and the Value of Cash Holdings: Evidence from China |
107 | Shu-Hen Chiang | Convergence and Spillovers of Price-level and its Relevance to Housing Market in China |
106 | Han-Ching Huang | The Information Contents of Insider Silence prior to Corporate Announcements |
106 | Yu-Lun Chen | The development of RMB internationalization, liberalization, and price discovery |
106 | Yi-Pei Chen | The effect of Multiple Large Shareholders on CEO pay-for-performance sensitivity: Evidence from China |
106 | Shen-Feng Luo | On portfolio selection with correlated defaults |
106 | Wan-Shin Mo | Volatility forecasting in the U.S. stock futures market: a mixed data sampling regression analysis |
106 | Ya-Kai Chang | Corporate transparency and price efficiency |
106 | Wen- Chien Liu | Conflicts of Interests before and after Financial Distress: Corporate Culture and Inside Debt |
Graduate development
Direction | Possible career paths | |
|---|---|---|
Continuing education | Our College of Business currently offers master’s programs and executive master’s programs in various fields, including Business Administration, International Trade, Accounting, Information Management, and Finance. We also have a Ph.D. program in Management. These programs will be available for future students in the Department of Finance at Chung Yuan Christian University. | Applying for graduate programs in universities in Taiwan or abroad, including：Department of Finance/ Department of Business Administration/ Department of International Business/ Department of Accounting and Information/ Department of Economics/ Department of Public Finance |
Career development | Employment is mainly focused on the fields of finance, accounting, and financial management, including industries such as financial holding companies, banks, insurance, securities, investment advisory, venture capital, real estate, and futures. Graduates can also work in financial management and consulting roles in corporate finance departments, government financial institutions, and financial consulting firms. | ．Training Management Associates for Financial Holding Companies．Cultivate professional talents in financial institution management．Educate financial investment, analysis, and innovation experts |
