Chris Lien

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I am an Assistant Professor of Finance at the College of Management, National Taiwan University. My research primarily focuses on empirical corporate finance, examining firm financing as well as the i

I earned a Ph.D. in Finance from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2023, where my dissertation committee included Prof. Heitor Almeida (Chair), Rustom Irani, Qiping Xu, and Stefan Zeume. Prior to my doctoral studies, I obtained a master's degree in Finance and Economics with distinction from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a B.A. in Information Management from Central Police University.

You can reach me at   ctlien2 AT illinois.edu or ctlien2 AT ntu.edu.tw