Jing Chen

 

Education

 

Ph.D. (1994),   University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

M.S. (1990),    Institute of System Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing

B.S. (1987),     Fudan University, Shanghai

 

Working experiences

 

1.      Assistant Professor, School of Business, University of Northern British Columbia, 2002 to present

2.      Assistant Professor, Department of Finance and Accounting, National University of Singapore, 1998- 2001

3.      Quantitative Analyst, ING-Barings, 1997-1998

4.      Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Department of Economics and Finance, City University of Hong Kong, 1994-1997

 

Publications

 

1.      Population, Migration, Living Standard and Social Pressure: A Modeling Approach from Thermodynamics, Working paper, (2012).

2.      A Common Framework for Evolutionary and Institutional Economics, (2012), with James Galbraith, Journal of Economic Issues, forthcoming.

3.      Austerity and Fraud under Different Structures of Technology and Resource Abundance, (2012). with James Galbraith, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol. 36, Issue 1, 335-343.

4.      Institutional Structures and Policies in an Environment of Increasingly Scarce and Expensive Resources: A Fixed Cost Perspective, (2011), with James Galbraith, Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 45, No 2: 301-308.

5.      Modeling Agile Software Maintenance Process Using Analytical Theory of Project Investment, (2011), with Xiaoying Kong and Li Liu, Procedia Engineering, Volume 24, Pages 138–142, 

6.      The Entropy Theory of Mind and Behavioral Finance, (2011), ICFAI Journal of Behavioral Finance, Vol. 8, No. 4, 6 – 40.

7.      Where is the Efficient Frontier, (2010), EuroEconomicaVol 24, No 1, 22 – 26.

8.      The Nature of Discounting, Working paper, (2009).

9.      An Option Theory Based Yield Curve Model, Working paper, (2009).

10.  A Biophysical Approach to Production Theory, Working paper, (2009), with James Galbraith

11.  Book review of G. Leclerc, C. A. S. Hall (eds), Making world development work: scientific alternatives to neoclassical economic theory, (2009) Environment, Development and Sustainability, 11 (4), 929-931.

12.  Internal firm structure, external market condition and competitive dynamics, (2009), with Sungchul Choi, Global Business and Economics Review, Vol. 11, No.1. 88 - 98,

13.  Understanding Social Systems: A Free Energy Perspective, (2009), Journal of Human Thermodynamics, 5: 1-6.

1.      Languages and Cultures: An Economic and Evolutionary Analysis (2008), EuroEconomica,  issue 2(21), 54-63

2.      The Physical Foundation of the Mind, NeuroQuantology, 6 (2008), No. 3, 222-233

3.      Ecological Economics: An Analytical Thermodynamic Theory, (2008) in Creating Sustainability Within Our Midst, edited by Robert Chapman, Pace University Press, 99-116.

4.      The Informational Theory of Investment: A Comparison with Behavioral Theories, ICFAI Journal of Behavioral Finance, 4 (2007), No. 1, 6 - 31

5.      Imperfect Market or Imperfect Theory: A Unified Analytical Theory of Production and Capital Structure of Firms, Corporate Finance Review, 11 (2006), No. 3, 19- 30

6.      An Analytical Theory of Project Investment: A Comparison with Real Option Theory, International Journal of Managerial Finance,    2 (2006) No. 4, p. 354-363

7.      A New Foundation of Economic Theory and its Application to Trade Analysis, In Trends in International Trade Issues, Eds.: Robert V. Weeks, p. 45-64, Nova Science Publishers, Hauppauge, NY, (2006)

8.      The Physical Foundation of Economics: An Analytical Thermodynamic Theory, World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ  (2005)

9.      Information Theory and Market Behavior, ICFAI Journal of Behavioral Finance, 2 (2005), No. 4, 25 - 45

10.  A Generalized Entropy Theory of Information and Market Patterns, Corporate Finance Review, 9 (2004), No. 3, 23- 32

11.  Credit Distortion and Financial Crisis, International Review of Financial Analysis, 13 (2004) No. 4, 559-570

12.  An Entropy Theory of Psychology and its Implication to Behavioral Finance, Financiële Studievereniging Rotterdam Forum, 6 (2003), No. 1, 26- 31

13.  Derivative Securities: What They Tell Us? Quantitative Finance, 3 (2003), No. 5, C92 - C96

14.  When the Bubble is Going to Burst, International Journal of Theoretical & Applied Finance,  2 (1999), No. 3, 285-292

15.   Conservation Laws for Relativistic Fluid Dynamics. Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 139 (1997), No. 4, 377-398

16.  Conservation Laws for the Relativistic p-system. Communications in Partial Differential Equations 20 (1995), No. 9-10,1605-1646

 

Presentations

 

1.      Invited speaker at The New Economics as ‘Mainstream’ Economics, 2010, Cambridge, UK, Title: A Biophysical Approach to Production Theory.

2.      Presentation at ASSA meeting, Denver, 2011, Title: Institutional Structures and Policies in an Environment of Increasingly Scarce and Expensive Resources: A Fixed Cost Perspective.   

 

Contact information

 

Jing Chen

School of Business

University of Northern British Columbia

3333 University Way

Prince George, B.C.

Canada, V2N 4Z9

Phone: 1-250-960-6480

Email:   chenj@unbc.ca

Web: http://web.unbc.ca/~chenj/