Business School,Beijing Normal University

LI Kun

C.V.

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Kun Li Ph.D., Associate Professor of Finance
Native Place: Tianjin Department of Finance Business School, Beijing Normal University Beijing 100875, China Tel: 010-58807847 Email: kunli@bnu.edu.cn
Education
2015	Ph.D. in Finance, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
2010	Master in Health & Bio-Pharmaceutical Economics, Lehigh University
2008	Master in Economics, Lehigh University
2006	Bachelor in Finance, Nanjing University
Work Experience
2013-2015	Entrepreneurship & Innovation Research Fellow, U.S. Smart Grid Cluster
2012	Quantitative Researcher, the CME Group
2007-2008	Research Analyst, Pennsylvania Small Business Development Center
2007	Research Analyst, United General Mortgage Corp.
Research Interests
High-Frequency Finance Financial Markets and Market Microstructure Applied Microeconomics Chinese Economy Energy Market
Courses Taught Investments (English-taught) BNU, Spring 2017 Recipient of University High-Quality Course (selected only 2 faculties at Business School); Recipient of Research Funds for Teaching and Education Reform of Central Universities, Ministry of Education of China; Market Microstructure & High-Frequency Trading BNU, Spring 2017 2017 University Creative Course Project (approved only 3 courses at Business School); Recipient of Research Fund for Teaching Innovation (Awarded to only 9 courses out of 3,600 courses); Statistics for Business & Economics(English-taught) BNU Recipient of Research Fund for Teaching Innovation (Awarded to only 10 courses out of 3,600 courses); Fall 2016 Recipient of Research Fund for Teaching Innovation (Awarded to only 12 courses out of 3,600 courses); Fall 2017 Principle of Finance BNU, Fall 2016 Recipient of University Model Curricula Award (Awarded to only 69 courses out of 3,600 courses); Receive a top-20 student evaluation score among 3,600 courses; Computing Tools & Business Analysis (English-taught) IIT, Spring 2014 Initiator and designer of this undergraduate core course for Business School students; Evaluated by students as "the most important and valuable undergraduate course";
Professional Societies/Activities
--The 8th Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE), 2012 --The 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), 2013 --The 12th Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS), 2013 --The International Conference on Identification, Information and Knowledge in the Internet of Things (IIKI), 2016 --Ad-hoc Referee for journals: ACM Transactions on the Web; Economics: E-Journal; Energy Policy; International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Honors and Awards
-- Research Funds for Teaching and Education Reform of Central Universities, Ministry of Education of China, 2017 -- Research Grant of Beijing Talents Fund, Organization Department of Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, 2016 - -Excellence in Teaching Award (University Model Curricula), BNU, 2016 -- Outstanding Young Faculty Research Grant, BNU, 2016 -- Beta Gamma Sigma (Highest Distinction to Business Scholars) 2016 --The U.S. Smart Grid Cluster Research Fellowship, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) 2013 - 2015 -- Stuart School Research & Travel Grant, IIT 2014 - 2015 --Stuart School Dean Scholarship, IIT 2010 - 2015 --Graduate Scholarship, IIT 2010 - 2015 -- Graduate Teaching & Research Scholarship, Lehigh University 2008 - 2010 -- U.S. Foreign Policy Colloquium Travel Grant, National Committee on US-China Relations (NCUSCR), Washington, D.C. 2007 --Yinxing Prize for Best Undergraduate Research Paper in Business & Economics, Nanjing University, China. 2004
Selected Publications
“How does Employee Education Affect Employer’s Corporate Social Responsibility? Evidence from China”, with Xiaokai Li, Economics Letters, Volume 234, 2024, 111498.(DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111498) “Does Stock Price Crash Risk affect Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure?”, Applied Economics Letters, 2024, Volume 31, Issue 14, Pages 1286-1291. (DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2023.2182403) “Do Circuit Breakers Impede Trading Behavior? A Study in Chinese Financial Market”, Singapore Economic Review, 2019, volume 64, issue 5, pages 1127-1144 (DOI: 10.1142/S0217590819500565) “Corporate Social Responsibility Practices in China: Trends, Context and Impact on Company Performance”, with Nasrin R. Khalili and Weiquan Cheng, Sustainability, 2019, volume 11, issue 2, 354. (DOI: 10.3390/su11020354) “The Significance of Calendar Effects in the Electricity Market”, with Joseph D. Cursio, Mengfei Jiang and Xi Liang, Applied Energy, 2019, volume 235, pages 487-494. (DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.10.124) “Reaction to News in the Chinese Stock Market: a Study on Xiong’an New Area Strategy”, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2018, volume 19, pages 36-38. (DOI: 10.1016/j.jbef.2018.03.004) “Do High-Frequency Fleeting Orders Exacerbate Market Illiquidity?”, Electronic Commerce Research, 2018, volume 18, issue 2, pages 241-255. (DOI: 10.1007/s10660-017-9273-8) “How Does High-Frequency Trading Affect Low-Frequency Trading?”, with Rick Cooper and Ben Van Vliet, Journal of Behavioral Finance, 2018, volume 19, issue 2, pages 235-248. (DOI:10.1080/15427560.2017.1376669)