Steven Li

Professor Steven Li

Professor

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Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

About

Professor Steven Li  is a  Professor of Finance at  the College of Business and Law (COBL), RMIT University. He has previously taught at a few universities in Australia and China, including University of South Australia, Queensland University of Technology and Tsinghua University. He has extensive teaching experience in many finance subjects at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He currently lectures on Financial Management,  Introduction to Financial Technology, and Sustainable Financial Management.  

Steven’s research interests include financial market efficiency, asset pricing, corporate finance, derivatives and financial engineering, Chinese financial markets, FinTech and sustainable finance. He has published over  100 academic papers. He has been a visiting scholar to Central South University, Sichuan University, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Bank of Japan, Sun Yat-san University, Hokkaido University, and University of Wollongong.

Steven is active in applying his finance knowledge and mathematical/statistical modelling skills for solving real-world business problems. He has significant consulting experience, including work for News Corporation, Bank of Japan, National Climate Change and Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF) and Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency (DCCEE) of the Commonwealth Government of Australia.

Supervisor projects

  • The Impact of Macro-economic variables on the choice of Capital structure with reference to the Listed Non-Financial Firms in Australian Stock Market
  • 5 Feb 2024
  • The Post-entry Expansion of Chinese MNEs in Developed Markets: A Strategic Perspective
  • 11 Aug 2023
  • Application of Machine Learning in Predicting Stock Market Movement Direction with Processed Multivariate Indicators
  • 20 Oct 2022
  • An Empirical Study on the Influence of Investor Sentiment on the U.S. Stock Market: Evidence Based on Minimum Spanning Trees and Multifractal Detrended Fluctuation Analysis
  • 23 Sep 2020
  • An Empirical Study on Equity Crowdfunding: U.S. Evidence
  • 21 Aug 2020

Teaching interests

Professor Li has successfully supervised many PhD students and Masters by Research/Honours students. He is currently recruiting new PhD students to do research on a wide range of finance subjects.

Teaching areas include:

  • Managerial finance
  •  Corporate finance
  •  Investments
  •  Derivatives and financial engineering
  •  Financial modelling
  • FinTech
  • Sustainable finance

 

Research interests

  •  Quantitative finance
  •  Corporate finance
  • Asset pricing, in particular derivatives pricing
  •  Efficiency of financial markets
  •  Investments
  • FinTech
  • Sustainable finance
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