{"id":80559,"date":"2020-12-04T09:30:53","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T00:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/weekly\/?p=80559"},"modified":"2021-01-08T16:03:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T07:03:31","slug":"%e3%80%90%e5%a4%a7%e5%ad%a6%e3%81%a7%e5%83%8d%e3%81%8f%e5%ad%a6%e7%94%9f%e3%80%91%e6%94%bf%e7%b5%8c3%e5%b9%b4-%e4%b8%ad%e5%b6%8b-%e6%a2%a8%e9%9f%b3%e3%80%8c%e5%af%ae%e7%94%9f%e3%81%ae%e5%a4%9a-2-2-2-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/weekly\/news-en\/2020\/12\/04\/80559\/","title":{"rendered":"\u3010Working at University\u3011Siyuan Chai\uff08SPSE\uff09\u300cSupporting the professor in quantitative research\u300d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction of Student Participation and Job<\/h3>\n

Research Assistant\uff08RA\uff09in Financial Data Collection and Analysis Projects
\nSiyuan Chai\uff08Peter Chai\uff09
\nFourth-year student at School of Political Sciences and Economics<\/h6>\n

\"\"There are some students studying and working on campus, who play an important role in the university. In the actual “Student Participation \/ Student Job<\/a>“, we will introduce what kind of students are involved in what kind of schedule and their profile. This time, Siyuan Chai\uff08Peter Chai\uff09, who is enrolled in the School of Political Science and Economics and is the RA \uff08Research Assistant\uff09 of\u00a0 an Assistant Professor,\u00a0Giang Duc Nguyen . Introducing Peter’s daily life, which supports his research while collecting and processing corporate data.<\/p>\n

Q. When did you first get involved in the Research Assistant job?<\/h4>\n

Since the start of the summer break of 2020, I have been working as a Research Assistant (RA) for Prof. Giang Duc Nguyen, an Assistant Professor\u00a0 at the School of Political Science and Economics who specializes in corporate finance and venture capital research.<\/p>\n

Q. What got you started?<\/h4>\n

I came to know Prof. Giang from taking his course Entrepreneurial Finance in the 2020 Spring Semester and I achieved the top score in his final take-home assignment. His rigorous teaching style was impressive to me. After the submission of my resume and writing samples, along with online interviews with him, I became recruited as his part-time Research Assistant employed in the School of Political Science and Economics.<\/p>\n

Q. What kind of activities are you involved in?<\/h4>\n

I have been supporting Prof. Giang in his quantitative analysis projects regarding corporate governance and venture capital investment and I spent the time during my summer break of 2020 inside Waseda University\u2019s libraries and computer labs. I have developed practical skills in collecting and processing Japanese corporate data through utilizing two digital financial databases from NEEDS (The Nikkei Economic Electronic Databank System): NEEDS-Cges (Corporate Governance Evaluation System) and Nikkei NEEDS-FinancialQUEST 2.0. The former is used to assess Japanese companies\u2019 financial performances and the latter one is applied to track Japanese stock market information.<\/p>\n

With the professor\u2019s guidelines and a Ph.D. sempai\u2019s instructions in regular video conferences, I have learned to download and arrange large datasets using these two commercial platforms by selecting years and variables of relevance. I have also become more familiar with how to effectively manage panel data by appending and codifying them in the programming software of Stata and outline their summary statistics. The descriptive statistics specific to Japan\u2019s financial market which I transformed from the two systems could complement the professor\u2019s research in some ways.<\/p>\n\n\t\t