Chu-Sheng Tai, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Jesse H. Jones School of Business at Texas Southern University. He earned his PhD from The Ohio State University in 1999. Before joining Texas Southern University in fall 2004, he taught at Pittsburg State University (1999-2000) and Texas A&M University - Kingsville (2000-2004).

Dr. Tai's teaching experience has covered a broad range of areas in finance, including investment, international finance and corporate finance courses. He has taught undergraduate and graduate classes.

Dr. Tai's main research areas are investments and international finance, and his research has been published in numerous journals, including Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Futures Markets, The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions, and Money, Journal of Multinational Financial Management, The Emerging Markets Review, International Review of Financial Analysis, Research in International Business and Finance, and Journal of Academy of Finance.

• University Travel Grant, Texas Southern University, 2007.

• Competitive Seed Grant, The University Research Advisory Committee, Texas Southern University, 2006. 

• Competitive Seed Grant, The University Research Advisory Committee, Texas Southern University, 2005. 

• Listed in Who's Who in Business Higher Education (2005).

• Graduate Faculty (Regular Status), Texas Southern University, 2005 - present.

• Competitive Seed Grant, University Research Council, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, 2004. 

• Full Member of the Graduate Faculty, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, 2001 – 2004.

• Presidential Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, 2004.

• Presidential Travel Award, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, 2004.

• McGraw-Hill/Irwin Distinguished Paper Award, 2004 AIB-SW, for: “Market Integration and Currency Risk in Asian Emerging Markets.”

• McGraw-Hill/Irwin Distinguished Paper Award, 2004 SSE, for: “Asymmetric Currency Risk Exposure of US Bank Stock Returns.”

• Best Paper Award in International Finance, 2003 MFA, for: “Looking for Risk Premium and Contagion in Asia-Pacific Foreign Exchange Markets.”

• American Association of Individual Investors (AAII)—Best Paper Award in Investments, 2003 SWFA, for: “Are Fama-French and Momentum Factors Really Priced?”

• Research Paper Award, The 9th Conference on the Theories and Practices of Security and Financial Markets (SFM), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C., December 2000, for: “On the Pricing of Foreign Exchange Risk and Risk Exposure in the Japanese Stock Market.”

• Best Doctoral Student Paper Award, 2000 SWFA, for: “Can Time-Varying Price of Risk and Volatility Explain the Predictable Excess Return Puzzle in Foreign Exchange Markets?”