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Weikai LI

Full-time Faculty

Assistant Professor of Finance

Lee Kong Chian School of Business
LKCSB

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Education

2017 Ph.D. in Finance, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
2012 MSc in Finance, Tulane University                                                                                             
2011  B.A. in Economics, Zhejiang University                                                                                                                               

Current Position(s) Held

Jul 2017 - Now  Assistant Professor of Finance
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University

Awards, Recognition and Honors

  • Lee Kong Chian Fellowship, 2022-2023
  • 2022 FIRN Annual Conference Best Paper Prize 
  • GRASFI 2021 Best Asset Pricing Paper Prize
  • Crowell Memorial Award for Best Paper in Quantitative Investments (Second Prize), 2020
  • 2016 AFBC PhD Forum Best Paper Award (first prize)
  • FMA Asia 2016 Best Paper Award in Asset Pricing/Investments 
  • CICF 2016 Best Paper Award 
  • Chicago Quantitative Alliance (Asia) Academic Competition, Second Prize, 2015
  • 2*Dean’s Scholarship for Research Excellence, HKUST, 2014-2015, 2016-2017
  • National Scholarship, Education Ministry of China, 2009

Research Interests

  • Empirical Asset Pricing
  • Behavioral Finance
  • Informed Trading
  • International Financial Markets

Journal Articles (Refereed)

  1. Exchange-Traded Funds and Real Investment, with Constantinos Antoniou, Xuewen Liu, Avanidhar Subrahmanyam, and Chengzhu Sun, Review of Financial Studies, Volume 36, Issue 3, 1043–1093, 2023. 
  2. Information Acquisition and Expected Returns: Evidence from EDGAR Search Traffic, with Chengzhu Sun, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 141, 104384, 2022.  
  3. Short Selling ETFs, with Qifei Zhu, Review of Asset Pricing Studies, Volume 12, Issue 4, 960-998, 2022. 
  4. Inside Brokers, with Abhiroop Mukherjee and Rik Sen, Journal of Financial Economics, Vol 141, 1096-1118 (2021)
  5. Security Analysts and Capital Market Anomalies, with Li Guo and K.C. John Wei, Journal of Financial Economics, Vol 137, 204-230 (2020)
  6. The Information Content of Sudden Insider Silence, with Claire Yurong Hong, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol.54(4), 1499-1538, 2019
  7. Climate Risks and Market Efficiency, with Harrison Hong and Jiangmin Xu, Journal of Econometrics, 208(1), 265-281, 2019 
  8. Macro Disagreement and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns, Review of Asset Pricing Studies, 6(1), 1-45, 2016. (Lead Article, Editor's Choice Article)

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