Si Li

Empirical Corporate Finance, Corporate Misreporting, Executive Compensation, Incentives, Corporate Bankruptcy, Debt, Investments, Insurance Regulation.

• Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics - Review of Finance Best Paper Award in 2010
• TCFA (The Chinese Finance Association) Best Paper Award in 2012
• Best Paper on Corporate Finance, The 2013 Northern Finance Association Annual Meetings
• Best Paper in Corporate Finance, The 2013 FMA Asia Annual Meetings
• Best Paper Award, The 22nd Conference on the Theories and Practices of Securities and Financial Markets (2014)
• Best Paper in Corporate Finance, The 2015 Asian Finance Association Annual Meetings

Finance Publications:

• Graham, John R., Si Li, and Jiaping Qiu, 2008, Corporate Misreporting and Bank Loan Contracting,Journal of Financial Economics 89-1, 44-61 
• Brav, Alon, J.B. Heaton, and Si Li, 2010, The Limits of the Limits of Arbitrage, Review of Finance 14-1, 157-187 (Second Prize, Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics - Review of Finance Best Paper Award. This prize is awarded for the best paper published in the Review of Finance in 2010.)
• Graham, John R., Si Li, and Jiaping Qiu, 2012, Managerial Attributes and Executive Compensation, Review of Financial Studies 25-1, 144-186 (This paper was previously titled "Managerial Ability and Executive Compensation")  
• Li, Si, Jeff Madura, and Nivine Richie, 2013, Bond Market Response to the Collapse of Prominent Investment Banks, Financial Review 48, 645-670 
• He, Zhiguo, Si Li, Bin Wei, and Jianfeng Yu, 2014, Uncertainty, Risk, and Incentives: Theory and Evidence, Management Science 60-1, 206-226 (The 2012 TCFA (The Chinese Finance Association) Best Paper Award)
• Li, Si and Nivine Richie, 2016, Income Smoothing and the Cost of Debt, China Journal of Accounting Research 9-3, 175-90 
• Li, Si and Xintong Zhan, 2017, Product Market Threats and Stock Crash Risk (Best Paper Award, The 22nd Conference on the Theories and Practices of Securities and Financial Markets (2014)), forthcoming, Management Science
• Li, Qingyuan, Si Li, and Li Xu, 2017, National Elections and Tail Risk: International Evidence, forthcoming, Journal of Banking and Finance

Insurance Publications:

• Carayannopoulos, Peter, Mary Kelly, and Si Li, 2010, The Impact of the 2003 Regulatory Reform in the Canadian Property/Casualty Insurance Industry on Insurers' Surplus Levels, Journal of Insurance Issues 33-1, 54-84
• Kelly, Mary, Anne Kleffner, and Si Li, 2012, Insurance Regulation and the Composition of Insurance Markets, Journal of Insurance Regulation 31, 27-57
• Kelly, Mary, Anne Kleffner, and Si Li, 2012, Loss Reserves and the Employment Status of the Appointed Actuary, North American Actuarial Journal 16-3, 285-305
• Kelly, Mary, Anne Kleffner, and Si Li, 2013, The Impact of Regulation on the Availability and Profitability of Auto Insurance in Canada, Insurance and Risk Management 81-3, 197-224.

BU393 Financial Management II (Corporate Finance)

BU463 Advanced Corporate Finance

BU663 Advanced Corporate Finance

Current Working Papers:

• Graham, John R., Hyunseob Kim, Si Li, and Jiaping Qiu, 2016, Employee Costs of Corporate Bankruptcy (Previously titled "Human Capital Loss in Corporate Bankruptcy". 1. Best Paper on Corporate Finance, The 2013 Northern Finance Association Annual Meetings; 2. Best Paper in Corporate Finance, The 2013 FMA Asia Annual Meetings), Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Finance 
• Li, Si and Fabricio Perez, 2018, How Do the Labor Market Values of Managerial Traits Evolve? (Best Paper in Corporate Finance, The 2015 Asian Finance Association Annual Meetings) (Previously titled "Executive Compensation and the Market Valuation of Managerial Attributes")  

Permanent Working Papers:

• Li, Si, 2010, Corporate Financial Fraud: An Application of Detection Controlled Estimation  (previously titled "Corporate Fraud and Costly Monitoring: An Empirical Analysis of a Simultaneous System with Partial Observability")
• Li, Si and Hui Ou-Yang, 2010, Explicit Incentives, Implicit Incentives, and Performance: Evidence from Academic Tenure