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Name Ping Chen TSAI
Title Assistant Professor
Research Interests Financial Markets,High-frequency,Stochastic Volatility,Price Jumps,Hawkes Process,Financial Statistics,Information Asymmetry.
Office CM3052
Phone 4825
Email vincenttsai@mail.nsysu.edu.tw


Education 2013, Ph.D., Accounting and Finance, Lancaster University
2006, Master, Accounting and Finance, Lancaster University
2002, Bachelor, Finance, National Taiwan University
Experience 2021-04-16 ~ , Lancaster University Management School Centre for Financial Econometrics, Asset Markets and Macroeconomic Policy, Visiting Research Fellow
2014-08-01 ~ 2020-07-31, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Assistant Professor
Academic Services 2024-07-01 ~ 2024-07-31, Economic Analysis and Policy, Reviewer
2024-02-01 ~ 2024-03-08, Journal of Management and Systems, Reviewer
2023-06-01 ~ 2023-08-31, International Review of Financial Analysis, Reviewer
2023-06-01 ~ 2023-08-31, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Reviewer
2023-05-11 ~ 2023-07-10, International Review of Economics & Finance, Reviewer
2022-03-01 ~ 2022-03-31, Applied Economics incorporating Applied Financial Economics, Reviewer
2021-09-01 ~ 2021-11-19, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C, Reviewer
2021-01-04 ~ 2021-01-31, Taiwan Economic Forecast and Policy, Reviewer
2020-10-01 ~ 2020-11-30, Mathematics, MDPI, Reviewer
2019-05-01 ~ 2019-06-30, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Reviewer
2019-05-01 ~ , Pusan National University, PhD Viva external examiner
2014-07-01 ~ 2014-08-31, Journal of Banking and Finance, Reviewer
Category Year Title
Journal Article 2024 Thi Hong Nhung Nguyen, Ping-Chen Tsai*, Chia-Hua Chang, Hsiao-Jung Chen (2024). Comparative Analysis of Estimating Capacity Factor for Wind Energy in Taiwan. Journal of Taiwan Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers 中國造船暨輪機工程學刊 . (其他期刊)
Journal Article 2024 Ping Chen TSAI*, Cheoljun EOM and Chou-Wen Wang (2024). State-dependent Intra-day Volatility Pattern and Its Impact on Price Jump Detection - Evidence from International Equity Indices. International Review of Financial Analysis (國科會“A-”財務領域國際期刊), 103412. (SSCI)
Journal Article 2023 Ping Chen TSAI* and Cheoljun EOM (2023). Leverage Effect Has an Intraday Pattern and Intraday Volatility Pattern Has a Leverage Effect: A Range-based Approach. Journal of Futures and Options 期貨與選擇權學刊, 16(2), 1-53. (TSSCI)
Journal Article 2022 Chien-Yuan Lai, Zhen-Yu Lin, Cheoljun Eom, Ping Chen Tsai* (2022). Market Intraday Momentum with New Measures for Trading Cost: Evidence from KOSPI Index. Journal of Risk and Financial Management (Scopus, EconLit), 15(11), 523. (其他期刊)
Journal Article 2021 P. C. Tsai (2021). Modelling Over-Dispersion in Price Jumps Arrivals: A Comparison between Poisson Mixtures and Linear Hawkes Model. Journal of the Chinese Statistical Association 中國統計學報 (CIS, JEL, EconLit), 59(2), 98-128. (其他期刊)
Journal Article 2021 Hong Nhung Nguyen, Chia Hua Chang* and Ping Chen Tsai (2021). Probability-based Capacity Factor in Uncertainty Analysis of Electricity Cost for Individual Wind Projects: a Novel Approach. International Journal of Energy Research, 46(2), 980-994. (SCIE)
Journal Article 2021 P. C. Tsai* and C. M. Tsai (2021). Estimating the Proportion of Informed and Speculative Traders in Financial Markets: Evidence from Exchange Rate. Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, 16(3), 443-470. (SSCI)
Journal Article 2020 P.C. Tsai (2020). Testing for Jumps in Prices under Jump-driven Leverage Effect in Stochastic Volatility: An Empirical and Simulation Study. 期貨與選擇權學刊, 13(2), 1-50. (TSSCI)
Journal Article 2020 Hai, H.V., J.W. Park, P.C. Tsai and C. Eom* (2020). Lottery Mindset, Mispricing and Idiosyncratic Volatility Puzzle: Evidence from the Chinese Stock Market. North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 54(2020), 101266. (SSCI)
Conference Paper 2023 Ping Chen TSAI, Jhih Jhong YING and Cheoljun EOM (2023). Amihud Illiquidity, Intraday Volatility Pattern and Price Jump Detection – International Stock Markets Evidence. The 31st Annual Conference on Pacific Basin Finance, Economics, Accounting, and Management (PBFEAM), 2-3 June, 2023, Taiwan.
Conference Paper 2023 劉永翔 蔡秉真 (2023). 股權集中程度對資訊不對稱的影響 -台灣上市公司實證結果. 2023中部財金學術聯盟研討會, Taiwan.
Conference Paper 2023 Kuei-Han JHU and Ping Chen TSAI (2023). Correcting for Negative Values in Range-based Spread Estimator – A Conditional Auto-Regressive Range (CARR) Approach. 2023 International Conference and Annual Meeting of the Financial Engineering Association of Taiwan, Taiwan.
Conference Paper 2023 Ping Chen TSAI and Cheoljun EOM (2023). State-dependent intra-day volatility pattern and price jump detection: Evidence from international equity indices . Financial Econometrics Conference, Lancaster University Management School, .
Conference Paper 2022 Ping Chen TSAI and Cheoljun EOM (2022). Leverage Effect Has an Intraday Pattern and Intraday Volatility Pattern Has a Leverage Effect: A Range-based Approach . 2022 New Futures期貨學術與實務交流研討會, Taiwan.
Conference Paper 2022 Ping Chen TSAI and Cheoljun EOM (2022). Asymmetric Intra-day Volatility Pattern and Price Jump Detection: Evidence from International Equity Indices. 2022台灣經濟計量學會年會, .
Conference Paper 2022 Ping Chen TSAI and Cheoljun EOM (2022). State-dependent intra-day volatility pattern and price jump detection: Evidence from international equity indices . 2022 TRIA-FeAT Joint Annual Meeting and International Conference of Risk, Insurance, and Financial Engineering, Providence University, Taiwan, .
Conference Paper 2021 P. C. Tsai, C. Eom and C. W. Wang (2021). An intraday range model with leverage effect in intraday volatility pattern. 第30屆南區統計研討會, .
Conference Paper 2020 Ping Chen TSAI and Hsiao Jung CHEN (2020). Leverage Effect in Volatility and in Price Jumps: New Empirical Evidence. The 28th Conference on the Theories & Practices of Securities and Financial Markets (SFM), Taiwan.
Conference Paper 2019 P. C. Tsai (2019). How stochastic are the innovations to a comprehensive volatility model? A point process analysis on high-frequency data. 18th Winter school on Mathematical Finance, Netherlands.
Conference Paper 2018 P. C. Tsai (2018). Applying Statistical Thinking to Bank's Know-Your-Customer (KYC) Questions Design. 2018年調查研究方法與應用學術研討會, Taiwan.
Conference Paper 2018 P. C. Tsai and C. M. Tsai (2018). Estimating the Proportion of Informed and Speculative Traders in Financial Markets: Evidence from CHF/EUR Exchange Rate. The 23rd Annual Workshop on Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents (WEHIA), Japan.
Conference Paper 2017 P. C. Tsai (2017). Do Jumps in Financial Prices Cluster? Evidence from High-Frequency Data. 2017 Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society (AMES), Hong Kong.
Book and Chapter 2020

P. C. Tsai and S. H. Dai (2020). Estimating the Proportion of Informed Traders in BTC-USD Market Using Spread and Range, Advanced Studies of Financial Technologies and Cryptocurrency Markets. Springer

Book and Chapter 2016

P. C. Tsai and M. B. Shackleton (2016). Detecting Jumps in High-Frequency Prices under Stochastic Volatility: A Review and a Data-Driven Approach, Handbook of High-Frequency Trading and Modeling in Finance. Wiley

Year Title
2023

Is 100% EMI feasible? The use of terminology pre-training in improving student efficacy and performance for the EMI course Financial Data Analysis. Ministry of Education (PMS1123028)

2022

Designing Excel Computer Workshop to Enhance Learning Achievement for Stochastic Calculus in an Introductory-level Financial Engineering Course. Ministry of Education (PMS1110059)

2021

Immersion teaching in an EMI course of International Finance: Bridging the local and international gap. Ministry of Education (PBM1101216)

Year Semester Required / Selected Department Course Code Course
112 2 Selected Department of Finance FM314 FINANCIAL ENGINEERING
112 2 Selected Department of Finance FM614 PRACTICE IN FINANCIAL DATA ANALYSIS AND TRADING STRATEGIES
112 2 Required Department of Finance FM206 STATISTICS(II)
112 2 Selected Department of Finance FM613J INDEPENDENT STUDIES(II)
111 2 Selected Department of Finance FM804 EMPIRICAL FINANCE
111 2 Selected Department of Finance FM613E INDEPENDENT STUDIES(II)
111 2 Selected Department of Finance FM314 FINANCIAL ENGINEERING
111 2 Required Department of Finance FI605 INDEPENDENT STUDIES IN MASTER THESIS (II)
111 1 Required Department of Finance FI604 INDEPENDENT STUDIES IN MASTER THESIS (I)
111 1 Selected Department of Finance FM601 INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
111 1 Selected Department of Finance FM426 BEHAVIORAL FINANCE AND PRIVATE BANKING
111 1 Selected Department of Finance FM608 FINANCIAL ENGINEERING AND FINANCIAL INNOVATION
110 2 Required Department of Finance FI605 INDEPENDENT STUDIES IN MASTER THESIS (II)
110 2 Selected Department of Finance FM314 FINANCIAL ENGINEERING
110 2 Selected Department of Finance FM613D INDEPENDENT STUDIES(II)
110 2 Selected Department of Finance FM804 EMPIRICAL FINANCE
110 2 Selected Department of Finance FM614 PRACTICE IN FINANCIAL DATA ANALYSIS AND TRADING ST
110 1 Selected Department of Finance FM601 INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
110 1 Selected Department of Finance FM426 BEHAVIORAL FINANCE AND PRIVATE BANKING
110 1 Required Department of Finance FI604 INDEPENDENT STUDIES IN MASTER THESIS (I)
110 1 Selected Department of Finance FM608 FINANCIAL ENGINEERING AND FINANCIAL INNOVATION
110 1 Selected Department of Finance FM611F INDEPENDENT STUDIES(I)
Year Name Degree Title
2023 Chong-Yuan Siao Master Extreme Illiquidity in the Forex Market: An Analysis based on the Hawkes Process
2023 Cheng Chin YANG Master The Relationship Between Investor Behavior and ETF Cash Flows: A Case Study of the Taiwan Market
2023 Che-Wei HSU Master Correcting for Negative Values in Range-based Bid-Ask Spread Estimator - A Range-Based Stochastic Volatility Model Approach
2023 Te-Yun CHIU Master Decomposing Bid-Ask Spread - A Comparison between Aggregate ARMA and Poisson-HMM Models
2023 Chia-Peng TSAO Master The impact of central bank monetary policy communication on stock price index, bond prices and exchange rate changes - taking the Bank of Japan BoJ as an example
2022 Yong-Xiang Liu Master Analysis of Market Volatility on Information Asymmetry: The Influence of Board Director Equity in Taiwan Listed Companies
2022 Quei-Han Chu Master Correcting for Negative Values in Range-based Spread Estimator – A Conditional Auto-Regressive Range (CARR) Approach
2022 Chih-Chung Ying Master Amihud Illiquidity, Intraday Volatility Pattern and Price Jump Detection – International Stock Markets Evidence
2022 Ming-Yang Wang Master Exploring the Clustering Phenomenon of Forex Extreme Illiquidity Events Using Mixture Models and Hidden Markov Models
2022 Yu-Jung Chou Master Energy Price Realized Volatility and Expected Stock Index Returns - a GARCH and Stochastic Volatility in Mean Approach
2022 I-Chun Chen Master Constructing a Taiwan Index Prediction Model by Integrating News Sentiment Analysis and International Derivatives- A Case Study of the Steel Market
2021 Zhen-Yu Lin Master A Comparison Study on Range-based Spread Estimators:Evidence from High-frequency KOSPI Data
2021 Chen-Hsun Sun Master The Corwin-Schultz spread estimator and price jump: Evidence from intraday KOSPI data
2021 Chien-Yuan Lai Master Market Intraday Momentum: Evidence from KOSPI Index
2021 Fu-Chen Yang Master Volume-Synchronized Probability of Informed Trading:Evidence from Korea
Year Title Awarding Organization
2024 教學優良課程獎勵-金融數據分析與交易策略 National Sun Yat-sen University
2023 2023 Manulife and Aberdeen ESG Sustainable Development Doctor and Master Thesis Award Manulife, Aberdeen Asset Management, Taiwan Finance Association
2022 逸仙新進管理學者獎 國立中山大學管理學院
2022 Top 20% EMI Course of National Sun Yat-sen University (Academic Year 111-1) National Sun Yat-sen University
2021 University New Faculty Incentives National Sun Yat-sen University
2021 University Outstanding New Faculty Incentives College of Management, National Sun Yat-sen University
2020 University New Faculty Incentives National Sun Yat-sen University
Period Activity Description Role
2023
臺師大EMI教學資源中心 「EMI專家教師人才庫」 https://bit.ly/EMI_Expert_Database
EMI教學經驗分享: My EMI and My Students' EML Experiences 11 October, 2023 
國立台北商業大學 (online)
國立中山大學第一屆全國EMI創新教學課程影片競賽   專業領域審查委員

2022
My EMI & My Students' EML Experiences, 國立中正大學 (27 Oct, hybrid)
110 年度南區雙語教育區域資源中心全英授課跨校教師社群召集人
EMI 經驗與心得分享 My EMI Experiences - Beyond Tactics and Skills
國立高雄科技大學 (23 Aug, online)
輔英科技大學 (02 Jun, online)


2021
Certificate in EMI Skills, Cambridge English Language Assessment
EMI 經驗與心得分享 My EMI Experiences - Beyond Tactics and Skills
國立台中科技大學 (23 Dec)
台灣科技大學 (21 Dec, online)
國立台南大學 (26 Nov, online)
高雄醫學大學 (05 Nov)
樹德科技大學 (01 Jul, online)
國立屏東科技大學 (12 Mar)

2020
專業領域英語授課(EMI)系列講座:全英語教學的眉角 - 技巧與經驗分享 朝陽科技大學 (25 Nov) 
創新教學深耕計畫 May - July 2020  英語授課教師創新教學專業成長社群召集人 南臺科技大學
教育部教學實踐研究計畫  互動式情教教學在國際金融課程之應用 - 誰是外匯市場中的知情交易者?
2019
Invited speaker 全英語教學工作坊暨英語教學觀摩分享會 , 國立中正大學
"Designing Interactive Games for Group Teaching in EMI Courses."
2018
EMI Workshop at National Sun Yat-sen University
全英語教學工作坊暨英語教學觀摩分享會, 國立中正大學
2016
International Conference and Workshop on English for Specific Purposes (ESP), STUST