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Li Jin

Chair Professor

Vice President of SUSTech、Acting Dean of Business School

Dr. Li Jin currently serves as Chair Professor、Vice President and Acting Dean of Business School at Southern University of Science and Technology. He has served as a Chair Professor of Finance and the Associate Division Head of the Division of Economics and Management at Peking University and Director of the National Centre for Financial Research at Peking University a finance professor at the Harvard Business School and at the University of Oxford Saïd Business School.

Li Jin currently serves as a member of CPPCC and its Economics Committee a member of the standing committee of China’s Jiusan Society the Vice Chairman of the Board of the Chinese Management Science Society and Director of its Financial Management Special Committee and Vice Chairman of the Advisory Board of Chinese Academy of Management and Director of the Private Equity Society. He is also an internationally recognized expert of corporate governance and serves on the board and scientific committee of Global Corporate Governance Colloquia representing China.

Education Background

  • 1992        Fudan University     Economics      
  • 1996        Rutgers University   Economics      
  • 2001        Massachusetts Institute of Technology  Finance

Research Areas

Investment and finance Merger and acquisition Private equity and venture capital Corporate governance Wealth management Family trust Family business succession planning Corporate governance issues for family businesses and Quantitative finance

Work Experience

  • Jul. 1992 – May 1994 Faculty Member Department of International Finance Fudan University
  • Jul. 2001 – Jun. 2007 Assistant Professor of Finance Harvard Business School
  • Jul. 2007 – Jun. 2012 Associate Professor of Finance Harvard Business School
  • Jul. 2012 – Aug. 2021 Chair Professor of Finance Guanghua School of Management Peking University Professor of Finance (with tenure) Saïd Business School Oxford University
  • Aug. 2021 – to date Acting Vice President and Chair Professor

Publications

Research Articles

  1. Dai Zhonglan Li Jin and Weining Zhang “Executive pay-performance-sensitivity and litigation” forthcoming Contemporary Accounting Review.
  2. Choi James Li Jin and Hongjun Yan “What does ownership breadth measure?” Review of Finance vol. 17 no. 4 July 2013 pp. 1239-1278. (Lead article)
  3.   For an appendix of the data used in this paper please visit
  4.   (http://crm.gsm.pku.edu.cn/linkfiledir/UploadFiles/File/202001/20200114095942075.zip)
  5. Huang Yasheng Li Jin and Yi Qian “Does Ethnicity Pay? Evidence from Overseas Chinese FDI in China” Review of Economics and Statistics vol. 95 no. 3 July 2013 pp. 868-883.
  6. Desai Mihir A. and Li Jin “Institutional Tax Clienteles and Payout Policy” Journal of Financial Economics vol. 100 no. 1 April 2011 pp. 68-84.
  7. Jin Li and Anna Scherbina “Inheriting Losers” Review of Financial Studies vol. 24 no. 1 March 2011 pp. 786-820.
  8. Jin Li and S.P. Kothari “Effect of Personal Taxes on Managers’ Decisions to Sell Unrestricted Equity” Journal of Accounting and Economics vol. 46 no. 1 September 2008 pp. 23-46.
  9. Jin Li and Stewart Myers “R-squared Around the World: New Theory and New Tests” Journal of Financial Economics vol. 79 no. 2 February 2006 pp. 257-292.
  10. Jin Li “Capital Gain Tax Overhang and Price Pressure” Journal of Finance vol. 61 no. 3 June 2006 pp. 1399-1430.
  11. Jin Li Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie “Do a Firm’s Equity Returns Reflect the Risk of Its Pension Plan?” Journal of Financial Economics vol. 81 no. 1 July 2006 pp. 1-26.
  12. Jin Li “CEO Compensation Diversification and Incentives” Journal of Financial Economics vol. 66 no. 1 October 2002 pp. 29-63.
  13. Discussion of “Institutions and Information Environment of Chinese Listed Firms” by Joseph Piotroski and TJ Wong included in the collective volume Capitalizing China: Translating Market Socialism with Chinese Characteristics into Sustained Prosperity edited by Joseph Fan and Randall Morck National Bureau of Economic Research forthcoming University of Chicago Press 2011.

Working Papers

  1. Fan Joseph Li Jin and Guojian Zheng“Internal capital market in emerging markets: expropriation and corporate governance”

Non-academic Articles and Media Interviews on China

  1. China’s Solution to Its 3 Trillion Dollar Foreign Exchange Reserve Problem policy research article sent to the Politburo members (25 of the most senior leaders in China including the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao) Li Jin Gongsheng Pan (currently serving as Vice Governor of the Chinese Central Bank) and Ming Wang (Director General of the Research Office of the Chinese State Council) August 2011.
  2. Interview with Tom Ashbrook “On Point” National Public Radio “Kissinger on China” May 12 2011.
  3. Interview with Tom Ashbrook “On Point” National Public Radio “China America & Questions in the Balance” January 20 2011.
  4. Interview with Tom Ashbrook “On Point” National Public Radio “Geitner Goes to China” June 2 2009
  5. A Better Solution for China Op-ed piece Li Jin and Shan Li The Wall Street Journal July 3 2008.
  6. The U.S.-China Trade Deficit Debunked Op-ed piece Li Jin and Shan Li The Wall Street Journal May 22 2007.

HBS Cases and Teaching Materials

  1. McFarlan F. Warren Li Jin and Tracy Manty "China's Financial Markets: 2006" Harvard Business School Note 307-058.
  2. Jin Li and Bingxing Huo "China's Financial Markets: 2007" Harvard Business School Note 208-147.
  3. Jin Li Michael Shih-ta Chen and Aldo Sesia "The Chubb Corporation in China" Harvard Business School Case 209-021.
  4. Jin Li Li Liao Huabing Li and Jielun Zhu "Framedia (A)" Harvard Business School Case 207-057.
  5. Jin Li Carliss Y. Baldwin Li Liao Huabing Li and Jielun Zhu "Framedia (A) Abridged" Harvard Business School Case 208-048.
  6. Jin Li and Li Liao "Framedia (A) and (B) (TN)" Harvard Business School Teaching Note 207-060.
  7. Jin Li Li Liao Huabing Li and Jielun Zhu "Framedia (B)" Harvard Business School Supplement 207-058.
  8. Baldwin Carliss Y. Li Jin Guhan Subramanian and Nithyasri Sharma "Framedia: Confidential Instructions for Jiang Nanchun" Harvard Business School Exercise 909-046.
  9. Baldwin Carliss Y. Li Jin Guhan Subramanian and Nithyasri Sharma "Framedia: Confidential Instructions for Tan Zhi" Harvard Business School Exercise 909-045.
  10. Jin Li Li Liao Jielun Zhu and Wenkai Sun "Fu Ji Food and Catering" Harvard Business School Case 208-004.
  11. Jin Li Kenneth A. Froot and Si Ping May Y "Geeli" Harvard Business School Case 206-105.
  12. Jin Li and Kenneth A. Froot "Geeli (TN)" Harvard Business School Teaching Note 207-074.
  13. Jin Li Li Liao RuoranGuo and Jielun Zhu "Gome: Bidding for China Paradise" Harvard Business School Case 208-002.
  14. Jin Li Li Liao RuoranGuo and Jielun Zhu "Gome: Going Public" Harvard Business School Case 208-001.
  15. Jin Li Li Liao Chang Chen and Aldo Sesia "Yucheng Technology" Harvard Business School Case 209-048.
  16. Jin Li Yuhai Xuan “Shenzhen Development Bank: 2003” Harvard Business School Case  210-020.
  17. Jin Li Zhihong Yi and Jun Jiang “China Magic Going Home” Harvard Business School Case 211-036.
  18. Jin Li Joseph Fan “Formosa Plastics Group: Business Continuity Forever” Harvard Business School Case 210-026.
  19. Jin Li Li Liao “Shenzhen Development Bank and the Non-tradable Share Reform in China”Harvard Business School Case 210-011.
  20. Jin Li Aldo Musacchio and NaniaDawood “The IPO of Agricultural Bank of China (A)”Harvard Business School Case N9-711-108.
  21. Jin Li Aldo Musacchio and Howard Huw “The IPO of Agricultural Bank of China(B)” Harvard Business School Case N9-711-109.
  22. Jin Li Matthew Preble and Aldo Seisa “China Development Bank” Harvard Business School Case N9-212-001.
  23. Jin Li Michael Shih-ta Chen and Dawn Lau “ATR KimEng Financial Corporation” Harvard Business School Case N9-212-026.

Conference and Academic Seminar Presentations (*indicates by co-author)

2011  American Accounting Association Annual Meeting (*) China International Conference in Finance (*)Michigan Oxford Beijing University Renming University INSEAD

Planned: Nanyang Technical University Singapore Management University Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Tsinghua University Fudan University Chinese University of Hong Kong.

2010  Miami Behavioral Finance Conference (*) National University of Singapore International Finance Conference China International Conference in Finance (*) Tulane Rochester (*) Washington University at St Louis (*) Goldman Sachs Asset Management Emory (*).

2009  National University of Singapore International Finance Conference National Bureau of Economic Research -CUHK joint conference on capitalizing China Thailand Conference on Families Firms and Networks China International Conference in Finance National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute on Law and Economics NYU Five-Star Conference (*) National Bureau of Economic Research China Working Group Meetings MIT.

2008  National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute on Taxation American Finance Association Cesarean Center Conference on Frontier of Finance Research Western Finance Association Oregon Conference on Institutional Investors TCFA Conference in New York City National Bureau of Economic Research China Working Group Meetings European Finance Association Annual Meetings George Mason Beijing University Fudan University Boston University Wharton (*)Chicago (*) Brandeis.

2007  Southern Methodist University Bently Tulane University of Texas at Dallas Zhongshan University Renming University Western Finance Association Annual Meetings American Accounting Association Annual Meetings China International Conference in Finance UNC Conference on Taxation.

Before 2006  American Finance Association Western Finance Association Q-Group (*)European Finance Association MIT U Mass Amherst Cesarean Center Conference on frontier of finance Texas Finance Festival Michigan Conference on Finance.