Yilin (Leon) Chen, Professor of Finance
507-389-5336
yilin.chen@mnsu.edu
Teaching
- Business Finance (FINA 362)
- Financial Institutions and Markets (FINA 464)
- Insurance and Risk Management (FINA 467)
- Personal Insurance (FINA 470)
- Personal Financial Planning (FINA 459)
- Options and Futures (FINA 480)
- Employee Benefits Planning (FINA 466)
Professional Excellence
- Certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM)
- Ph.D. (Risk Management and Insurance), University of Georgia
- Master of Business Administration (Finance), University of Notre Dame
- Master of Information Systems, Baylor University
- Bachelor of Science in Finance, Shanghai Jiaotong University
Research
- “Event Studies for Publicly-Traded Insurers: An Investigation of the Bad Model Problem” (with Steven Pottier), 2023, North American Actuarial Journal, 28(2):438-468.
- “Corporate Financing Decisions in the Presence of Asymmetric Information – A Classroom Simulation Game” (with Puneet Jaiprakash), 2023, Journal of Financial Education, 49(1):89-108.
- “Event Studies for Publicly-Traded Insurers: An Investigation of the Bad Model Problem” (with Steven Pottier), 2023, North American Actuarial Journal (forthcoming).
- "The Role of Financial Planners on African-American Business Owner’s Personal Credit and Access to Capital” (with Dan Hiebert and Sofia Duffy), 2022, Journal of Financial Planning, 35(11): 66-79.
- “An Investigation of the Short-Run and Long-Run Stock Market Response to Insurer Rating Changes” (with Jennifer Gaver and Steven Pottier), 2018, Journal of Risk and Insurance 85(1): 35-67.
- “Rating Changes and Competing Information: Evidence on Publicly-Traded Insurance Firms” (with Steven Pottier), 2018, Journal of Risk and Insurance 85(3): 811-842.
- “The Impact of a Rating Agency’s Private Information and Disclosed Causes of Rating Downgrades on Insurer Stock Returns” (with Steven Pottier), 2017, North American Actuarial Journal, 21(2): 297-304.
- “An Insurance Market Simulation with both Adverse and Advantageous Selection” (with Puneet Jaiprakash), 2017, Risk Management and Insurance Review 20(1): 133-146.
- “A Study of Interest and Perception of the Financial Planning Profession among Finance Undergraduate Students” (with Roger Severns), 2016, Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning 27(1): 130-140.
- “The Relative Informativeness of Analysts’ Stock Return Forecasts and Rating Changes for Insurance Companies” (with Steven Pottier), 2015, Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice 40(3): 516-537.
- “Implementing Black-Litterman using an Equivalent Formula and Equity Analyst Target Prices” (with Zhi Da and Ernst Schaumburg), 2015, Journal of Investing 24(1): 34-47.
- “Ownership Form and Efficiency: The Coexistence of Stock and Mutual Life Insurers” (with David Eckles and Steven Pottier), 2013, Journal of Insurance Issues 36(2): 121-148.
Commitment to Student Success
- Finance Club, Faculty Advisor