Lan Bi

LAN BI

 

Curriculum
Vitae

photo of Lan Bi

 

 


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