Jiakai Chen

Jiakai Chen
  • Associate Professor of Finance
  • First Hawaiian Bank Distinguished Professor of Banking

Room

BusAd E-602h

Phone

(808) 956-7610
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Academic Background

  • Ph.D. in Finance and Real Estate, University of California at Berkeley

Research Interests

  • Financial Institutions and Capital Markets
  • Real Estate Finance

Selected Publications

Chen, Jiakai. "Market Discipline and Regulatory Arbitrage: Evidence from ABCP Liquidity Guarantors." Journal of Banking and Finance (2022): 106656.

Chen, Jiakai, Joon Ho Kim, and S. Ghon Rhee. "Do low search costs facilitate like-buys-like mergers? Evidence from common bank networks." Journal of Financial Economics (2021).

Chen, Jiakai. "LIBOR's poker." Journal of Financial Markets (2020): 100586.

Awards & Honors

First Hawaiian Bank Distinguished Professorship in Banking, 2023 - present
Summer Research Grant, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2016 - 2018, 2020 - 2023
Dissertation Research Award, Institute of Business and Economic Research, 2014
Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics Research Grant, UC Berkeley, 2014
Australasian Finance & Banking Conference Best Student Paper Award, 2013
Australasian Finance & Banking Conference Travel Grant, 2013 
Claudius N. and James N. White Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 2011-2012 
Gifford Fong Best Graduation Paper Award, UC Berkeley, 2006 
Championship, Lehman Brother Financial Engineering Competition, 2006