Chen Li

Chen Li is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at NYU Shanghai. Prior to joining NYU Shanghai, she was an Assistant Professor of Accountancy at Baruch College in the City University of New York. She holds a PhD and an MS from Carnegie Mellon University, and an MA, BA, and BS from Peking University. Her dissertation, “Essays on the Structural Models of Executive Compensation,” won the William W. Cooper Doctoral Dissertation Awards in Management or Management Science at Carnegie Mellon University.

Selected Publications

• "Are Top Management Teams Compensated as Teams? A Structural Modeling Approach", Chen Li, Forthcoming at Management Science.
• "Was the Sarbanes-Oxley Act Costly: Evidence from Optimal Contracting on CEO Compensation," Chen Li, George-Levi Gayle and Robert A. Miller, Journal of Accounting Research 60(4), 1189-1234. September 2022.
• “How Well Does Agency Theory Explain Executive Compensation?” with George-Levi Gayle and Robert A. Miller, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, 100 (3), pp. 201-236, Third Quarter, 2018
• “Political Connections and Tax-Induced Earnings Management: Evidence from China,” with Lian-Sheng Wu, Ya-Ping Wang, and Jason Zezhong Xiao, European Journal of Finance, Vol. 22, Issue 4-6, pp. 412-431, 2016
• “Local Tax Rebates, Corporate Tax Burdens, and Firm Migration: Evidence from China,” with Lian-Sheng Wu, Ya-Ping Wang, Bing-Xuan Lin, and Shaw Chen, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Vol. 26, No. 5, pp. 555–583, September 2007
• “Ownership, Cash Flow, and Investment,” with Yi Zhang, China Economic Quarterly (经济学季刊), Vol.5, No.1, pp. 229-246, October 2005
• “Tax Refunds, the Corporate Tax Burden and the Effectiveness of Tax Policy,” with Lian-Sheng Wu, Social Sciences in China (中国社会科学), No. 4, pp. 61-73, 2007

Education

• PhD, Accounting (Minor in Finance)

  
  Carnegie Mellon University

• MS, Industrial Administration (Concentrated in Accounting)

  
  Carnegie Mellon University

• MA, Accounting

  
  Peking University, China

• BA, Management (Concentrated in Accounting)
  
  

  Peking University, China

• BS, Statistics

  
  Peking University, China