Chan Wai Sum
professor
Dept of Finance
Asia-Pacific Institute of Business, The (APIB)
China
Biography
Wai-Sum Chan was born in Hong Kong. His undergraduate work was taken at the Chinese University of Hong Kong where he graduated in 1984 with a major in accounting and a minor in statistics. He pursued a doctorate in applied statistics at the Fox School of Business, Temple University (Philadelphia, USA), receiving the Ph.D. in 1989. He qualified as a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries in 1995. Dr. Chan has held teaching and research posts at the National University of Singapore, the University of Waterloo, and the University of Hong Kong before his present appointment as professor in the Department of Finance at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Dr. Chan’s research interests include health care financing, actuarial modeling, and financial econometrics. He has had over 100 scientific articles published in scholarly journals. Dr. Chan has been teaching financial and actuarial courses since 1992.
Research Interest
Stochastic Actuarial Modelling; Financial Econometrics; Actuarial Evidence in Courts; Business Statistics
Publications
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Zhang, L.X., Hu, F., Cheung, S.H. and Chan, W.S. "Asymptotic Properties of Multi-color Randomly Reinforced Polya Urn," Advances in Applied Probability, 2014, 46, 585-602.
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Chan, W.S., Cheung, S.H., Chow, W.K. and Zhang, L.X. "A Robust Test for Threshold-type Non-linearity in Multivariate Time-Series Analysis," Journal of Forecasting, 2015, 34, 441-454.
