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Miss Mengjia Li
(she/her)
Research Student/Graduate Tutor
Overview
I am a PhD candidate at Cardiff Business School in the Accounting and Finance (A&F) section. I am one of the organizers of the A&F Reading Group, also a member of the Cardiff Corporate Governance Research Group (CCGRG), the Empirical Finance Group at Cardiff Business School and the Centre for China Business Research (CCBR). I hold an MSc in Accounting and Finance and an MSc in Social Science Research Methods (with Distinction) from Cardiff University.
My research interests are mainly in the area of empirical corporate finance, including: corporate voluntary disclosure, managerial overconfidence, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility. I am also interested in the broad area of accounting and auditing.
Before embarking on my PhD in Finance, I have had several years of professional working experience. My experience in industry adds value to my research.
Publication
2024
- Zheng, Z., Qiu, Z., Li, M. and Ding, W. 2024. High-speed rail and stock return comovement in China. Research in International Business and Finance 67(Part A), article number: 102107. (10.1016/j.ribaf.2023.102107)
Articles
- Zheng, Z., Qiu, Z., Li, M. and Ding, W. 2024. High-speed rail and stock return comovement in China. Research in International Business and Finance 67(Part A), article number: 102107. (10.1016/j.ribaf.2023.102107)
Research
1. “Beyond accuracy: How analyst site visits boost precision of management range guidance”, with Wenjie Ding, Qingwei Wang, and Jason Zezhong Xiao, 2024, under review by Journal of Empirical Finance
-The Best Paper Award at the 22nd British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA) Special Interest Group (SIG) Workshop on Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies (AFEE)
-The Best Paper Finalist Award at the 21st China Symposium on Empirical Accounting
-The 8th Annual Conference of the International Corporate Governance Society (ICGS)
-Centre for China Business Research (CCBR) PhD Workshop
2. “Great trees are good for shade: Corporate social responsibility reporting and corporate risk”, with Huiqun Feng, Pengfei Gao, and Zaixin Chen, 2024, working paper
-The 46th Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association
-The Annual Conference 2024 of British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA)
3. “Sell-side analysts’ social network and forecast accuracy”, with Wenjie Ding, Hao Li, Qingwei Wang, and Jason Zezhong Xiao, 2024, working paper
-The 17th International Behavioural Finance Conference
-Tri-University (Cardiff-Xiamen-Newcastle) Annual Conference 2023
-The 3rd Welsh Postgraduate Research Conference (WPGRC) in Business, Management & Economics
-2023 Edinburgh World-Class Workshop in Finance
4. “Analyst-manager collusion during corporate site visits”, with Wenjie Ding, Hao Li, Qingwei Wang, and Jason Zezhong Xiao, 2024, working paper
Teaching
BST959 Market Structure and Electronic Trading (Tutorial) (MSc Finance)
BS2508 Corporate Financial Management (Tutorial) (Undergraduate)