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Dr. Leo Chan

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Phone: 801-863-8428
Mail Stop: 280
Curriculum Vitae: Hung Lam Chan CV

Biography

Originally from China, I have been teaching economics and finance for more than 20 years. In recent years I started learning about AI (machine learning).

Education

PhD, University of Kansas, 2001

Major: Financial Economics

BA, Unviersity of Kansas, 1996

Major: Economics

Teaching

FIN 5130

Financial Statement Analysis and Modeling, Fall 2024

FIN 6130

Financial Statement Analysis and Modeling, Fall 2024

FIN 3400

Investment Management, Fall 2024

FIN 3400

Investment Management, Fall 2024

FIN 3400

Investment Management, Summer 2024

FIN 3100

Principles of Finance, Summer 2024

FIN 4170

Derivative Securities, Spring 2024

FIN 3400

Investment Management, Spring 2024

FIN 3400

Investment Management, Spring 2024

Presentations

Chan, Leo , ISAFE Annual Meeting, "Is the CAPE Ratio Too High or The Risk Free Rate Too Low", International Society for the Advancement of Finance and Economics, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. (December 5, 2022)

Chan, Leo , Southwest Finance Association Meeting 2020, "A More Intuitive Formula for PEG Ratio", Southwest Finance Association, San Antonio, TX. (March 12, 2020)

Chan, Leo , Southwest Finance Association Meeting, "Forecasting Oil Futures Market Volatility in a Financialized World_ Why Speculative Activities Matter", Southwest Finance Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico. (March 17, 2018)

Chan, Leo H (Author Only), International Conference on Energy Finance, "Forecasting Oil Futures Market Volatility in a Financialized World_ Why Speculative Activities Matter", Academy of Financial Research , Hangzhou, China. (May 26, 2017)

Chan, Leo , Southwestern Finance Association Annual Meeting, "The Effect of Speculative Trades on Basis Risk_ Evidence from Crude Oil Futures", Southwestern Finance Association, Houston, TX. (March 17, 2015)

Chan, Leo , Henan Symposium on Institutional and Development Economics, "Are All Foreign Capitals Created Equal? Evidence from Asia and Latin America", Henan University, Kaifeng, China. (June 17, 2014)

Scholarly/Creative Works

Chan, Leo , (2024) "Forecasting Agriculture Commodity Futures Prices with Convolutional Neural Networks with Application to Wheat Futures" (Issue: 17(4)). Geneva : Journal of Risk and Financial Management/MDPI. https://doi.org/10.3390/jrfm17040143

Chan, Leo H, (2023) "Why the High Values for the CAPE Ratio in Recent Years Might Be Justified" (Issue: 410, vol. 16). Basel: Journal of Risk and Financial Management. https://www.mdpi.com/1911-8074/16/9/410

Chan, Leo , Stengos, Thanasis , (2023) "A More Intuitive Formula for the PEG Ratio" (Issue: 4, vol. 16). Basel: Journal of Risk and Financial Management, MDPI. https://doi.org/10.3390/jrfm16040214

Chan, Leo , Array, Array , Beladi, H , (2020) "Forecasting Oil Futures Market Volatility in a Financialized World_ Why Speculative Activities Matter" (vol. In press). New York: North America Journal of Economics and Finance. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.najef.2018.10.009

Chan, Leo H, (2019) "Impacts of the Contributions of FDI and Remittances on the Economic Growth in Asia and Latin America_ A Comparative Study." (Issue: 3, vol. 14). Shanghai: Frontier of Economics in China. https://iar.sufe.edu.cn/c2/1c/c10837a180764/page.htm

Chan, Leo , Brown, Stephen A, (2015) "A new approach to measure speculation in the oil futures market and some policy implications" (Issue: 2, vol. 86). Atlanta, GA: Elsevier. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421515300021

FIN 3400

Investment Management, Summer 2023

FIN 3100

Principles of Finance, Summer 2023

FIN 4170

Derivative Securities, Spring 2023

FIN 3400

Investment Management, Spring 2023

FIN 3400

Investment Management, Spring 2023

FIN 5130

Financial Statement Analysis and Modeling, Fall 2022

FIN 6130

Financial Statement Analysis and Modeling, Fall 2022

FIN 3400

Investment Management, Fall 2022

FIN 3100

Principles of Finance, Fall 2022

FIN 3100

Principles of Finance, Summer 2022

FIN 4170

Derivative Securities, Spring 2022

FIN 5130

Financial Statement Analysis and Modeling, Spring 2022

FIN 6130

Financial Statement Analysis and Modeling, Spring 2022

FIN 4160

Portfolio Management, Spring 2022

FIN 4180

International Finance Management, Fall 2021

FIN 3400

Investment Management, Fall 2021

FIN 3400

Investment Management, Fall 2021

FIN 4180

International Finance Management, Spring 2021

FIN 3400

Investment Management, Spring 2021

FIN 4160

Portfolio Management, Spring 2021

FIN 4180

International Finance Management, Fall 2020

FIN 3400

Investment Management, Fall 2020

FIN 3100

Principles of Finance, Fall 2020

FIN 4180

International Finance Management, Summer 2020

FIN 4180

International Finance Management, Spring 2020

FIN 3400

Investment Management, Spring 2020

FIN 4160

Portfolio Management, Spring 2020

FIN 4180

International Finance Management, Fall 2019

FIN 3400

Investment Management, Fall 2019

FIN 3100

Principles of Finance, Fall 2019

FIN 4180

International Finance Management, Summer 2019

FIN 3400

Investment Management, Spring 2019

FIN 4160

Portfolio Management, Spring 2019

FIN 3100

Principles of Finance, Spring 2019

FIN 4180

International Finance Management, Fall 2018

FIN 3400

Investment Management, Fall 2018

FIN 3100

Principles of Finance, Fall 2018

FIN 3400

Investment Management, Spring 2018

FIN 4160

Portfolio Management, Spring 2018

FIN 3100

Principles of Finance, Spring 2018

FIN 4180

International Finance Management, Fall 2017

FIN 3400

Investment Management, Fall 2017

FIN 3100

Principles of Finance, Fall 2017

FIN 3400

Investment Management, Spring 2017

FIN 4160

Portfolio Management, Spring 2017

FIN 3100

Principles of Finance, Spring 2017

FIN 4180

International Finance Management, Fall 2016

FIN 3400

Investment Management, Fall 2016

FIN 3100

Principles of Finance, Fall 2016

FIN 4180

International Finance Management, Fall 2015

FIN 3400

Investment Management, Fall 2015

FIN 3100

Principles of Finance, Fall 2015

FIN 3400

Investment Management, Spring 2015

FIN 4160

Portfolio Management, Spring 2015

FIN 3100

Principles of Finance, Spring 2015

FIN 4180

International Finance Management, Fall 2014

FIN 3400

Investment Management, Fall 2014

FIN 3100

Principles of Finance, Fall 2014

FIN 3400

Investment Management, Summer 2014

FIN 3400

Investment Management, Spring 2014

FIN 4160

Portfolio Management, Spring 2014

FIN 3100

Principles of Finance, Spring 2014

FIN 4180

International Finance Management, Fall 2013

FIN 3400

Investment Management, Fall 2013

MGMT 2340

MGMT 2340 Business Statistics I, Fall 2013

FIN 3400

Investment Management, Summer 2013

FIN 3400

Investment Management, Spring 2013

FIN 4160

Portfolio Management, Spring 2013

FIN 3100

Principles of Finance, Spring 2013

MGMT 2340

Business Statistics I, Fall 2012

FIN 4180

International Finance Management, Fall 2012

FIN 3400

Investment Management, Fall 2012

FIN 6150

Financial Management, Spring 2011

FIN 3400

Investment Management, Spring 2011

FIN 4160

Portfolio Management, Spring 2011

FIN 457R

Advanced Topics in Finance, Fall 2010

FIN 3400

Investment Management, Fall 2010

FIN 3100

Principles of Finance, Fall 2010

FIN 4100

Management of Financial Institutions, Spring 2010

FIN 4160

Portfolio Management, Spring 2010

FIN 3100

Principles of Finance, Spring 2010

MGMT 2340

Business Statistics I, Fall 2009

FIN 3400

Investment Management, Fall 2009

FIN 3100

Principles of Finance, Fall 2009

MGMT 4160

Portfolio Management, Spring 2009

MGMT 3100

Principles of Finance, Spring 2009

MGMT 3100

Principles of Finance, Spring 2009

MGMT 3400

Investment Management, Fall 2008

MGMT 3100

Principles of Finance, Fall 2008

MGMT 3100

Principles of Finance, Fall 2008

Chan, Leo (Author Only), Asia-Pacific Economics Association 8th Annual Meeting, "The Information Value of Excessive Speculative Trading in Oil Futures Market", , Asia-Pacific Economics Association, Singapore. (June 29, 2012)

Chan, Leo (Author Only), Utah Academy of Arts, Letters and Sciences Annual Meeting, "A Note on the Usefulness of the Minimum-Variance Portfolio in Practice", , UAL, Salt Lake City. (April 8, 2011)

Chan, Leo (Author Only), Utah Academy of Arts, Letters, and Sciences Annual Meeting, "The Risk that Wasn't There_ Understand the Roles of Derivatives in Reducing and Creating Risk", , UAL, St. George, Utah. (April 9, 2010)

Chan, Leo , Eastern Finance Association 2008 Annual Meeting, "An Inter-fund Analysis of Bank Loan Mutual Funds", , Eastern Finance Association, St. Petersburg, FL. (April 8, 2008)

Chan, Leo , Eastern Finance Association 2007 Annual Meeting, "Financial Interdependence between Hong Kong and the US_ A Band Spectrum Approach", , Eastern Finance Association, New Orleans. (April, 2007)

Chan, Leo , Hick, Jean , (2015) "Using books by prolific investors for teaching an investments course_ A pedagogical note" (Issue: 1, vol. 13). Philadelphia, PA: The Financial Education Association.

Chan, Leo , Nguyen, Chi M. , Chan, Johnny Kam , Fung, Hung-gay , (2013) "The Information Value of Excessive Speculative Trades on Price Volatility in Oil Futures Markets" (Issue: 1, vol. 13). Howard Hous: Frontiers of Economics and Globalization_ International Financial Markets/Emerald Group Publishing Limited. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/S1574-8715%282013%290000013006

Chan, Leo , Tian, Guoqiang , (2013) "Which Chinese Stock Market to Diversify into?" (Issue: 2, vol. 8). Shanghai: Frontiers of Economics in China. www.brill.nl/fecc

Chan, Leo , Kraus, Kristin , (2012) "A Note on the Usefulness of the Minimum-Variance Portfolio in Practice" (Issue: 1, vol. 89). Salt Lake City, Utah: Journal of Utah Academy of Science Letters and Arts. www.utahacademy.org/journal/2011/JUASAL%202011%20final.pdf

Chan, Leo , Altman, M. , (2010) "The value of planned death" (Issue: 6, vol. 39). New York, New York: Journal of Socio-Economics. http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/620175/description

Chan, Leo , Kraus, Kristin L., (2010) "The Risk That Wasn't There" (vol. 87). Salt Lake City, Utah: Utah Academy. http://www.utahacademy.org/journal/2010%20volume-final.pdf

Chan, Leo , Lien, Donald , Weng, Wenlong , (2008) "Financial Interdependence between Hong Kong and the US_ A Band Spectrum Approach" (vol. 17). International Review of Economics and Finance.

Chan, Leo , Chan, Johnny WK, Trainer, Bill , (2008) "An Inter-fund Analysis of Bank Loan Mutual Funds" (vol. 7). USA: Journal of Personal Finance.

Chan, Leo , Lien, Donald , (2007) "The Dynamics of Volatility Spillovers in Chinese Futures Markets" (Issue: 1, vol. 12). Journal of Emerging Markets.

Chan, Leo , (2006) "A Note on the Correlation Relationship Among Singapore, Hong Kong and the US Capital Markets Since the Asian Crisis_ Implication for International Portfolio Management" (vol. 51). Singapore: Singapore Economics Review.

Chan, Leo , Lien, Donald , (2006) "Are Options Redundant? Further Evidence from Currency Futures Markets" (Issue: 2, vol. 15). International Review of Financial Analysis.

Chan, Leo , (2006) "How Does the Asian Economic Crisis Affect the Interdependencies between Financial Markets in Asia and the US?" (Issue: 2, vol. 10). Journal of Emerging Markets.

Chan, Leo , Chan, Johnny WK, (2005) "Institutional Interventions and Performance of Futures Markets in China" (Issue: 5, vol. 41). Emerging Markets Finance and Trade.

Chan, Leo , Chan, Johnny WK, Wolfe, Edward , (2005) "Using Essays of Warren Buffett_ Lessons for Corporate America in the Classroom" (vol. 34). Journal of Financial Education.