國立暨南國際大學財務金融學系 > 系所介紹-師資介紹 > 系所介紹-師資介紹-柯冠成

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特聘教授兼管理學院副院長

柯冠成

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國立中央大學 財務金融系博士

研究領域

資產定價、投資學、財務計量、行為財務學

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Working Experience

  • Distinguished Professor of Finance, National Chi Nan University (08/2019-present)
  • Deputy secretary of Taiwan Finance Association (11/2019-present)
  • Deputy secretary of Financial Engineering Association of Taiwan (07/2015-present)
  • Editor of Finance Area, Management Review (07/2022-06/2025)
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Derivatives and Quantitative Studies (01/2024-present)
  • Board of Directors of Asian Finance Association (07/2021-06/2023)
  • Visiting Professor of Finance, University of Hawaii at Manoa (02/2017-07/2017)
  • Professor of Finance, National Chi Nan University (08/2016-present)
  • Chair of Department of Banking and Finance, National Chi Nan University (08/2012-07/2014)
  • Associate Professor of Finance, National Chi Nan University (08/2012-07/2016)
  • Assistant Professor of Finance, National Chi Nan University (08/2009-07/2012)

Education

  • Ph.D. in Finance, National Central University (09/2004-06/2008)
  • M.S. in Finance, National Central University (09/2002-06/2004)
  • B.S. in Quantitative Finance, National Tsing Hua University (09/1998-06/2002)

Research Areas

  • Empirical asset pricing
  • Investments
  • Behavioral finance

Refereed Journal Publications

(A) International journals:

  1. Chou, Robin K., Kuan-Cheng Ko and Ghon Rhee, 2023. National cultures and the asset growth effect. Journal of Derivatives and Quantitative Studies 31, 278-308. (corresponding author)
  2. Chou, Pin-Huang, Kuan-Cheng Ko and Ghon Rhee, 2023. Comparing Competing Factor and Characteristics Models: Evidence in Japan. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal 82, 102179. (SSCI; corresponding author)
  3. Lin, Chaonan, Kuan-Cheng Ko and Chien-Lin Lu, 2023. Why Is the Amihud (2002) Measure Priced in Taiwan: Illiquidity or Mispricing? Pacific-Basin Finance Journal 79, (SSCI)
  4. Lin, Chaonan, Kuan-Cheng Ko and Nien-Tzu Yang, 2023. Is There the Maturity Premium in Taiwan? Pacific-Basin Finance Journal 79, (SSCI)
  5. Lu, Jing, Keng-Yu Ho, Po-Hsin Ho and Kuan-Cheng Ko, 2023. CEO Overconfidence, Lottery Preference and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns. Finance Research Letters 54, 103749. (SSCI; corresponding author)
  6. Lin, Chaonan, Hsiao-Wei Ho and Kuan-Cheng Ko, 2023. Shorting Flows and Return Predictability in Taiwan. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal 77, 101816. (SSCI; corresponding author)
  7. Ko, Kuan-Cheng and Nien-Tzu Yang, 2022. The Pre-Holiday Premium of Ariel (1990) Has Largely Become A Small-Firm Effect Out of Sample. Critical Finance Review, forthcoming.
  8. Lu, Jing, Nien-Tzu Yang, Keng-Yu Ho andKuan-Cheng Ko, 2022. Lottery Demand and the Asset Growth Anomaly. Finance Research Letters 48, 102988. (SSCI; corresponding author)
  9. Ran, Rong, Cheng Li, Kuan-Cheng Ko and Nien-Tzu Yang, 2022. State-Dependent Psychological Anchors and Momentum. Finance Research Letters 46(B), 102436. (SSCI)
  10. Lin, Chaonan, Kuan-Cheng Ko and Nien-Tzu Yang, 2022. Does the Momentum Gap Explain Momentum in Taiwan? Pacific-Basin Finance Journal 72, 101732. (SSCI)
  11. Lin, Chaonan, Nien-Tzu Yang, Robin K. Chou and Kuan-Cheng Ko, 2022. A Timing Momentum Strategy. Accounting and Finance 62(S1), 1339-1379. (SSCI; corresponding author)
  12. Lin, Chaonan, Hong-Yi Chen, Kuan-Cheng Ko and Nien-Tzu Yang, 2021. Time-Dependent Lottery Preference and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns. Journal of Empirical Finance 64, 272-294. (SSCI)
  13. Xia, Chuanxin, Nien-Tzu Yang, Chaonan Lin and Kuan-Cheng Ko, 2021. Multi-market Trading, Price Delay, and Return Predictability. Finance Research Letters 40, 101730. (SSCI)
  14. Chen, Tsung-Yu, Pin-Huang Chou, Kuan-Cheng Ko and S. Ghon Rhee, 2021. Non-Parametric Momentum Based on Ranks and Signs. Journal of Empirical Finance 60, 94-109. (SSCI)
  15. Ko, Kuan-Cheng, Jun Nie, Rong Ran and Yuan Gu, 2020. Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Identity, and Innovation Performance in China. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal 63, 101415. (SSCI)
  16. Chou, Pin-Huang, Kuan-Cheng Ko and Nien-Tzu Yang, 2019. Asset Growth, Style Investing and Momentum. Journal of Banking and Finance 98, 108-124. (SSCI; corresponding author)
  17. Hao, Ying, Shaofei Wang, Robin K. Chou and Kuan-Cheng Ko, 2019. Boom Baby, Career Experience and Risk Taking: A Natural Experiment from Chinese CEOs’ Growth Path. International Review of Finance 19(2), 347-383. (SSCI)
  18. Hao, Ying, Robin K. Chou, Kuan-Cheng Ko and Nien-Tzu Yang, 2018. The 52-Week High, Momentum, and Investor Sentiment. International Review of Financial Analysis 57, 167-183. (SSCI; corresponding author)
  19. Yang, Nien-Tzu, Hsiang-Hui Chu, Kuan-Cheng Ko and Shiou-Wen Lee, 2018. Continuing Overreaction and Momentum in a Market with Price Limits. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal 48, 56-71. (SSCI; corresponding author)
  20. Chang, Rosita P., Kuan-Cheng Ko, Shinji Nakano and S. Ghon Rhee, 2018. Residual Momentum in Japan. Journal of Empirical Finance 45, 283-299. (SSCI)
  21. Lin, Chaonan, Kuan-Cheng Ko, Lin Lin and Nien-Tzu Yang, 2017. Price Limits and the Value Premium in the Taiwan Stock Market. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal 41, 26-45. (SSCI; corresponding author)
  22. Lin, Chaonan, Kuan-Cheng Ko, Zhi-Xiang Feng and Nien-Tzu Yang, 2016. Market Dynamics and Momentum in the Taiwan Stock Market. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal 38, 59-75. (SSCI; corresponding author)
  23. Lin, Chaonan, Kuan-Cheng Ko, Yu-Lin Chen and Hsiang-Hui Chu, 2016. Information Discreteness, Price Limits and Earnings Momentum. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal 37, 1-22. (SSCI; corresponding author, Lead article)
  24. Hao, Ying, Hsiang-Hui Chu, Keng-Yu Ho and Kuan-Cheng Ko, 2016. The 52-Week High and Momentum Investing in Taiwan Stock Market: Anchoring or Recency Biases? International Review of Economics & Finance 43, 121-138. (SSCI; corresponding author)
  25. Hao, Ying, Hsiang-Hui Chu, Kuan-Cheng Ko and Lin Lin, 2016. Momentum Strategies and Investor Sentiment in the REIT Market. International Review of Finance 16(1), 41-71. (SSCI; corresponding author)
  26. Ko, Kuan-Cheng, Shinn-Juh Lin, Hsiang-Ju Su and Hsing-Hua Chang, 2014. Value Investing and Technical Analysis in Taiwan Stock Market. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal 26, 14-36. (SSCI; corresponding author)
  27. Chou, Pin-Huang, Robin K. Chou, Kuan-Cheng Ko and Chun-Yi Chao, 2013. What Affects the Cool-off Duration under Price Limits? Pacific-Basin Finance Journal 24, 256-278. (SSCI)
  28. Chu, Hsiang-Hui, Kuan-Cheng Ko, Shinn-Juh Lin and Hsiao-Wei Ho, 2013. Credit Rating Anomaly in Taiwan Stock Market. Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies 42(3), 403-441. (SSCI; corresponding author)
  29. Chou, Pin-Huang, Po-Hsin Ho and Kuan-Cheng Ko, 2012. Do Industries Matter in Explaining Stock Returns and Asset-Pricing Anomalies? Journal of Banking and Finance 36(2), 355-370. (SSCI)
  30. Chou, Pin-Huang, Kuan-Cheng Ko, Szu-Tsen Kuo and Shinn-Juh Lin, 2012. Firm Characteristics, Alternative Factors, and Asset-Pricing Anomalies: Evidence from Japan. Quantitative Finance 12(3), 369-382. (SSCI)
  31. Chou, Pin-Huang, Kuan-Cheng Ko and Shinn-Juh Lin, 2010. Do Relative Leverage and Relative Distress Really Explain Size and Book-to-Market Anomalies? Journal of Financial Markets 13(1), 77-100. (SSCI)
  32. Chou, Pin-Huang, Robin K. Chou and Kuan-Cheng Ko, 2009. Prospect Theory and the Risk-Return Paradox: Some Recent Evidence. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting 33(3), 193-208. (Lead article)
  33. Chou, Pin-Huang and Kuan-Cheng Ko, 2008. Characteristics, Covariances, and Structural Breaks. Economics Letters 100(1), 31-34. (SSCI)

(B) Local journals:

  1. Liu, Hsin-Lu, Kuan-Cheng Ko, Yi-Jhen Lin and Wen-Chi Lo, 2023. Value, Momentum, and Crash Risk in the Taiwan Stock Market. Sun Yat-Sen Management Review 31(2), 283-307. (TSSCI; corresponding author)
  2. Lo, Wen-Chi, Robin K. Chou, Kuan-Cheng Ko and Nien-Tzu Yang, 2022. Historical High, Time-Varying Anchoring Biases, and Stock Return Predictability. Journal of Financial Studies 30(1), 57-83. (TSSCI)
  3. Yang, Nien-Tzu, Kuan-Cheng Ko, Hsiang-Tai Lee and Kai-Zhe Lin, 2018. Economic States, Downside Risk and Momentum in the Taiwan Stock Market. Journal of Financial Studies 26(4), 99-128. (TSSCI)
  4. Yang, Nien-Tzu, Kuan-Cheng Ko and Lin Lin, 2018. Residual Momentum and Investor Sentiment. Journal of Management and Business Research 35(4), 461-488. (TSSCI; corresponding author)
  5. Ko, Kuan-Cheng, Hsiang-Ju Su, Shinn-Juh Lin and Hsiang-Hui Chu, 2016. The Impact of Technical Analysis on Volatility and Size Effects in Taiwan Stock Market. Journal of Management and Business Research 33(2), 281-309. (TSSCI)
  6. Ko, Kuan-Cheng, Huei-Jyun Jiang, Shinn-Juh Lin and Jung-Hsien Chang, 2012. Asset Growth and Stock Returns: Evidence from Taiwan Stock Market. Journal of Management and Business Research 29(5), 465-487. (TSSCI)

Local Practitioner Journals

  1. 柯冠成，2019。「臺灣期貨市場造市制度與功能」之研究。期貨人季刊，第70卷，48-57。

Books and Book Chapters

  1. Ko, Kuan-Cheng, 2008, Essays on Firm Characteristics, Alternative Factors, and Asset-Pricing Anomalies, National Central University. (Ph. D. dissertation)
  2. Ko, Kuan-Cheng, 2004, Prospect Theory and the Risk-Return Relationship: Evidence from Mutual Funds, National Central University. (Master thesis)
  3. Ko, Kuan-Cheng (with professors from Department of Finance at National Central University), 2004, Financial Case Book I, Taiwan Academy of Banking and Finance.

Awards and Honors

(A) Paper and reviewer awards:

  1. 2024 UMC Best Paper Award (Paper title: Historical High, Time-Varying Anchoring Biases, and Stock Return Predictability)
  2. Best Reviewer Award of Management Review (2021)
  3. Fubon Best Paper Award for The 2020 International Conference of Taiwan Finance Association held in Puli, Taiwan, 2020 (Paper title: National Cultures and the Asset Growth Effect)
  4. 2019 UMC Best Paper Award (Paper title: The Impact of Technical Analysis on Volatility and Size Effects in Taiwan Stock Market)
  5. 1st Best Paper Award for The 4th Indonesian Finance Association (IFA) International Conference held in Lampung, Indonesia, 2018 (Paper title: Investor Gambling Preference and the Asset Growth Anomaly)
  6. 2017 Best Practical Paper Award of Journal of Management and Business Research (Paper title: The Impact of Technical Analysis on Volatility and Size Effects in Taiwan Stock Market)
  7. Fubon Best Paper Award for The 2016 International Conference of Taiwan Finance Association held in New Taipei City, Taiwan, 2016 (Paper title: Asset Growth, Style Investing and Momentum)
  8. 2014 UMC Best Paper Award (Paper title: Asset Growth and Stock Returns: Evidence from Taiwan Stock Market)
  9. 2013 Best Paper Award of Journal of Management and Business Research (Paper title: Asset Growth and Stock Returns: Evidence from Taiwan Stock Market)
  10. Runner-up Paper Award for Finance and Corporate Governance Conference held in Melbourne, Australia, 2010
  11. PhD Travel Award for The 2008 Midwest Finance Association Annual Meeting held in San Antonio, Texas, USA, 2008

(B) Awards received from National Chi Nan University:

  1. National Chi Nan University Distinguished Scholar funded by MOE (2022-2023)
  2. National Chi Nan University Distinguished Scholar funded by NSTC (MOST) (2013, 2014, 2016-2021)
  3. National Chi Nan University Outstanding Research Award (2015, 2021)
  4. National Chi Nan University Outstanding Teaching Award (2020)

National Science Council(Ministry of Science and Technology) Grants

(A) Principal investigator:

  1. Resolutions of the Idiosyncratic Volatility Puzzle, MOST 111-2410-H-260-025-MY3 (08/2022-07/2025)
  2. CEO Overconfidence, Social Preference, Shorting Volume and Lottery Preference in Stock Returns, MOST 110-2410-H-260-004-MY3 (08/2021-07/2024)
  3. Technical Analysis in Long and Short Terms and the Cross-Sectional Stock Returns: Underreaction or Overreaction?, MOST 108-2410-H-260-004-MY3 (08/2019-07/2022)
  4. Structural-Change Tests and Momentum Investing, MOST 108-2410-H-260-005-MY2 (08/2019-07/2021)
  5. Three Essays on the Asset Growth Anomalies, MOST 106-2410-H-260-012-MY2 (08/2017-07/2019)
  6. Price Limits, Investor Attention, Arbitrage Risk and Asset-Pricing Anomalies, MOST 104-2410-H-260-004-MY2 (08/2015-07/2017)
  7. The 52-week High, Low, and Momentum Investing: New Measure and New Evidence, MOST 103-2410-H-260-005-MY3 (08/2014-07/2017)
  8. Industry and Asset Pricing Anomalies in International Stock Markets, NSC 101-2410-H-260-016-MY2 (08/2012-07/2014)
  9. The 52-Week-High Anomaly: Factors or Characteristics?, NSC 100-2410-H-260-020 (08/2011-07/2012)
  10. Macroeconomic Factors, Firm Characteristics, and Stock Returns, NSC 99-2410-H-260-030 (08/2010-07/2011)
  11. Is Credit-Risk Premium Driven by Relative Leverage and Relative Distress?, NSC 98-2410-H-260-068 (11/2009-10/2010)
  12. Essays on Econometric Analysis of Asset-Pricing Anomalies, NSC 96-2420-H-008-023-DR (NSC Ph.D. Dissertation Award, 08/2007-07/2008)

(B) Co-investigator:

  1. New Investors and Asset Pricing, MOST 110-2410-H-004-074-MY3 (08/2021-07/2024)
  2. Anchoring Biases and Return Predictability: The Roles of Individualism and Time-Series Momentum, MOST 108-2410-H-004-079-MY2 (08/2019-07/2021)
  3. Anchoring Biases and Asset Pricing Anomalies, MOST 106-2410-H-004-027-MY2 (08/2017-07/2019)
  4. Individualism, Gambling Preferences, and the Asset Growth Anomaly, MOST 104-2410-H-004-017-MY2 (08/2015-07/2017)
  5. An Anatomy of Cross-Sectional Return Dispersions, NSC 102-2410-H-008-014-MY3 (08/2013-07/2016)
  6. Moving Average Signals and Momentum Investing, NSC 102-2628-H-004-001 (08/2013-07/2014)
  7. Default Risk and Stock Returns: Characteristics, Factors and Econometric Issues, NSC 99-2410-H-008-038-MY3 (08/2010-07/2013)

Ministry of Education Grants

  1. Joint Program in Training Students with Skills of Finance and Information Management, MOE 103-03-05-002 (02/2013-01/2015)

Industrial Research Projects

  1. 開放證券商從事避險基金之可行性分析 (中華民國證券商業同業公會委託研究計劃，共同主持人，04/2020-09/2020)
  2. 臺灣期貨市場造市制度與功能之研究 (中華民國期貨業商業同業公會委託研究計劃，共同主持人，09/2018-01/2019)
  3. 如何提升我國當日沖銷交易之發展－就交易成本問題之研究 (中華民國證券商業同業公會委託研究計劃，主持人，10/2016-01/2017)
  4. 台灣期貨市場交易人下單行為與違約風險相關性之研究 (台灣期貨交易所股份有限公司委託計劃，研究助理，06/2006-01/2007)

Academic Services

  1. Editorial services
  • Editor of Finance Area, Management Review (07/2022-06/2025)
  • Guest Editor of 2024 FeAT International Conference special issue, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal (2024-2025)
  • Guest Editor of 2023 Asian Finance Association Annual Meeting Special Issue, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal (2023-2024)
  • Guest Editor of 2022 TRIA-FeAT special issue, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal (2022-2023)
  • Guest Editor of special issue on Finance, Academia Economic Papers (2023-2024)
  • Guest Editor of special issue on Empirical Financial Research of Taiwan, Journal of Financial Studies (2023)
  • Guest Editor of FeAT special issue, Review of Securities and Futures Markets (2021)
  1. Reviewer
  • International journals: Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics; Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies; Economics Letters; Emerging Markets Finance and Trade; Financial Review; International Review of Economics & Finance; Journal of Banking and Finance; Journal of Empirical Finance; North American Journal of Economics and Finance; Pacific-Basin Finance Journal; Pacific Economic Review; Quarterly Review of Economics & Finance; Review of Financial Economics; Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting
  • Local TSSCI journals: Academia Economic Papers; Asia Pacific Management Review; International Journal of Commerce and Strategy; Journal of Business Administration; Journal of Financial Studies; Journal of Futures and Options; Journal of Management and Business Research; Journal of Management & Systems; Management Review; NTU Management Review; Review of Securities and Futures Markets; Sun Yat-Sen Management Review; Taiwan Economic Review; Taiwan Journal of Applied Economics
  • MOST (NSC) Research Projects (2011-2023)
  • MOE Teaching Practice Research Program (2018-2023)
  • MOST Ph.D. Dissertation Award (2014, 2020, 2021)
  • MOST College Student Research Projects (2012, 2013, 2016, 2018-2023)
  • MOST College Student Research Creativity Award (2012, 2016, 2021-2023)
  • UMC Best Paper Award (2021-2024)
  • Asian Finance Association Annual Conference (2012, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022)
  • International Conference of Taiwan Finance Association (2016, 2019, 2020)
  • Fubon Life Management Doctor and Master Thesis Award (2017-2023)
  • University System of Taipei Joint Research Program (2017)
  1. Session chair
  • 2023 International Conference of the Taiwan Finance Association
  • 2023 FeAT International Conference
  • 2023 ESG and Management Innovation Conference
  • The 34th Asian Finance Association Annual Meeting 2022
  • 2022 International Conference of the Taiwan Finance Association
  • The 4th Indonesian Finance Association International Conference 2018
  • 2017 Asset Pricing Conference of Taiwan Finance Association
  • The 23th Conference on the Theories and Practices of Securities and Financial Markets
  • 2014 Joint Annual Meeting of CTFA and FeAT
  • 2013 Annual Meeting of CTFA
  1. Committee member
  • Program committee member of 2022 Asian Finance Association Annual Conference
  • Program committee member of 2022 Asset Pricing Symposium of Taiwan Finance Association
  • Program committee member of 2013 The Annual Meeting of CTFA

Academic Speeches

  1. National Chengchi University, 04/22/2022
  2. Ming Chuan University, 11/05/2021
  3. Providence University, 10/28/2021
  4. National Taiwan University, 06/12/2020
  5. National Chengchi University (Brownbag), 12/12/2019
  6. National Tsing Hua University, 04/26/2018
  7. National Taiwan University, 11/24/2017
  8. 2017 Asset Pricing Conference of Taiwan Finance Association, 09/29/2017
  9. National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, 09/26/2017
  10. National Dong Hwa University, 10/05/2016
  11. 2016 Asset Pricing Conference of Taiwan Finance Association, 08/02/2016
  12. National Chung Cheng University, 11/27/2015
  13. National Changhua University of Education, 04/14/2015
  14. National Taiwan University, 11/14/2014
  15. National Central University, 10/28/2014
  16. Feng Chia University, 10/02/2014
  17. Ling Tung University (NSC workshop), 05/08/2014
  18. Tunghai University, 04/10/2014
  19. National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, 02/26/2014
  20. Yuan Ze University (NSC workshop), 01/09/2014
  21. National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology (NSC workshop), 12/10/2013
  22. Center for Research in Econometric Theory and Applications, 11/29/2013
  23. National Chengchi University, 11/14/2013
  24. Ling Tung University, 05/16/2013
  25. National Chengchi University, 04/12/2013
  26. National United University, 04/10/2013
  27. Providence University, 12/13/2012
  28. National Chi Nan University, 06/07/2012
  29. National Taiwan University, 05/18/2012
  30. National Tsing Hua University, 11/24/2011
  31. National Dong Hwa University, 05/20/2011
  32. National Chi Nan University, 04/07/2011
  33. National Chengchi University, 04/16/2010