LAN BI
Curriculum
Vitae
Statistician,
Epsilon, Burlington, Massachusetts
E-mail: bi.4@osu.edu
Education
Ph. D.
Candidate, Family Financial Management, The OhioStateUniversity,
Ph.D. Degree expected August, 2005
M.A.S.,
Statistics, The OhioStateUniversity, 2003
M.S.,
Family Resource Management, The
OhioStateUniversity, 2002
Thesis: A Comprehensive Look at Emergency Funds
B.S.,
Finance, RenminUniversity
of China,
Beijing,
P.R. China, 2000
Field of Interest
Consumer
Financial Decision Making,
Family Financial Behavior and Planning
Publications
Bi, L. (2004). Can mental accounting
explain the
credit card puzzle? A preliminary study. Proceedings
of the Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education.
Bi, L. & Montalto, C. P. (2004).
Emergency funds
and the alternative forms of saving. Financial Services Review,
13 (2),
93-109.
Bi, L. & Montalto, C. P. (2003).
Emergency funds
and the alternatives. Consumer Interests Annual, vol. 49.
http://consumerinterests.org/public/articles/EmergencyFunds_03.pdf
Bi, L., Montalto, C. P. & Fox, J.
(2002).
Household search for and use of financial information. Consumer
Interests
Annual, vol. 48.
http://www.consumerinterests.org/public/articles/HouseholdSearch-02.pdf,
1-9.
Hanna, S.D.,
Bi, L., Lai, C. H., Doll, K., Kim, E., Ku, D., Miller, S., & Seo,
J.
(2002). Consistency
of Household Savings, a Standard Retirement Planning Model, and a
Prescriptive
Life Cycle Model. Consumer Interests Annual, vol. 48.
Presentations
Can mental
accounting explain
the credit card puzzle? A preliminary study, presented at Association for Financial Counseling and
Planning Education, 2004 Annual Conference.
Emergency funds
and the
alternatives, presented at American Council on Consumer Interest,
49th
Annual Conference, 2003.
Household search
for and use of
financial information, presented at American Council on Consumer
Interest,
48th Annual Conference, 2002.
Consistency of
Household
Savings, a Standard Retirement Planning Model, and a Prescriptive Life
Cycle
Model, in refereed poster session at American Council
on
Consumer Interest, 48th Annual Conference, 2002.
Manuscripts In Progress
Bi, L., Montalto, C.
P. & Fox,
J. Households investment/saving information search.
Research In Progress
Saving behavior of credit card revolvers,
borrowing
behavior of financially sufficient credit card users.
Experience
Graduate Research
Assistant, 2004
to present
Graduate Teaching
Assistant, 2001 ~
2002, 2003 ~ 2004
Graduate Research
Assistant, 2002 ~
2003
Assisted in data analysis using SCF
dataset
Tutor for Business
Math at OSU
Mathematics and Statistics Learning Center, 2002-2004
Computer Skills
Statistics Software:
SAS, SPSS,
S-PLUS, R, MINITAB
Operating System:
Windows, UNIX
Awards and Honor
Member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society for
top 10%
graduate students nationwide, 2003.
Winner of Student Travel Grant Award
sponsored by
Ford Motor Company, American Council on Consumer Interest, 48th Annual
Conference, 2002
Deacon and Firebaugh Fellowship, College
of Human Ecology, The Ohio
State
University, 2000-2001
Professional Society
American Council on Consumer Interests
Association
for Financial Counseling and Planning Education