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Zhixin (Richard) Kang, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor Economics, Finance, and Decision Sciences Office: Business Administration Building, Room 125 Email: zhixin.kang@uncp.edu Phone: 910.775.4368

 

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BIO

Dr. Zhixin Kang received his Ph.D. in Business Administration (Field: Business Statistics) from The University of Illinois at Chicago. He joined the University of North Carolina at Pembroke in August 2008 as a tenure-track assistant professor in quantitative methods.

 

DEGREES

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Business Administration
University of Illinois at Chicago

Master of Science (MS) in Financial Engineering
Kent State University

Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Kent State University

Master of Engineering
Jiangsu University, China

Bachelor of Engineering
Xi ’an Jiaotong University, China

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Dr. Kang’s research interests are in the fields of applied and computational statistics, financial economics, financial econometrics, time series modeling and forecasting, and real estate finance and economics. His research has been published in Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Statistics and Its Interface, Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management, and Journal of Transnational Management. He has presented his papers in many regional and national conferences, and has served as reviewers, session chairs, and discussants in these conferences. In addition, he has reviewed many papers as a reviewer for the peer-reviewed journals such as Statistics and Its Interface, Quantitative Finance, Journal of Applied Statistics, Journal of Business in Developing Nations, and Journal of Development and Agricultural Economics.

 

COURSES

• DSC 2090: Spreadsheet and Database Management
• DSC 3130: Business Statistics I
• DSC 3140: Business Statistics II
• DCS 5100: Quantitative Methods

Updated: Thursday, March 3, 2011

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