Dongmei Li

Assistant Professor of Finance

Dr. Li received her Ph.D. in finance from the University of Pennsylvania. While at the Wharton School, she was the recipient of the Dean’s Fellowship for Distinguished Merit and the American Finance Association Student Travel Award. She presented at the WFA (Western Finance Association) annual meeting and received the NYSE Ph.D. Student Travel Grant in June 2007.

Dr. Li’s main research interests are asset pricing, corporate finance, investments, financing of innovations and high-tech industries. She has served as a teaching assistant at the Wharton School for three years, teaching both undergraduate and MBA courses. These courses focused on topics such as funding investments, financial derivatives, trading and investing, real options, corporate finance and monetary economics. Dr. Li teaches in the FlexMBA and Full-Time MBA programs.

Papers

Financial Constraints, R&D Investments, and Stock Returns (under 2nd round revision, Review of Financial Studies)

Distinguishing Rational and Behavioral Models of Momentum

Costly External Finance: Implications for Capital Markets Anomalies (with Lu Zhang, under 1st round revision, Journal of Financial Economics)