Tao Li
- Bank of America Professor
- Associate Professor
Location
- Warrington College of Business
- Eugene F. Brigham Finance, Insurance and Real Estate Department
- Stuzin Hall 308
Expertise and interest areas
- Corporate Governance
- Financial Institutions
- FinTech
- Hedge Funds
News
Warrington professor Tao Li appointed Research Member at prestigious corporate governance institution – March 3, 2025 – Tao Li, Ph.D., the Bank of America Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Florida Warrington College of Business, was recently appointed Research Member…
Pump-and-dump schemes detrimental to cryptocurrencies and investors, UF Warrington research finds – November 20, 2018 – GAINESVILLE, Fla. – When it comes to investing, avoiding risk is almost impossible. No matter if you invest in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, or even…
Courses taught
- Financial Management (FIN4414)
- Special Topics (FIN4934)
- Special Topics in Finance (FIN6930)
Education
- PhD – Economics, Columbia University, 2013
- MA – Statistics, Columbia University, 2008
- BA – Architecture, Tongji University, 2004
PhD students advised
- Boyu Wang — 2024 — Current
- Zikui Pan — 2024 — Current
- Lan Le — 2023 — 2023
- Beatrice Chang — 2022 — 2022
- Boyuan Li — 2022 — 2022
Professional service
- Committee Member, FMA Annual Meeting — 2025 to Present
- Session Chair, American Finance Association Annual Meeting — 2026
- Committee Member, Crypto and Blockchain Economics Research (CBER) Conference — 2021 to 2025
- Committee Member, FMA Consortium on Asset Management — 2024 to 2025
- Committee Member, Tokenomics Conference — 2024
- Journal Referee, Journal of Financial Economics — 2019 to 2024
- Journal referee, Management Science — 2018 to 2024
- Journal Referee, Review of Economic Studies — 2024
- Journal Referee, Review of Financial Studies — 2017 to 2024
- Track Organizer, Eastern Finance Association — 2023 to 2024
- Journal Referee, Journal of Finance — 2022 to 2023
- Journal referee, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis — 2021 to 2023
- Journal referee, Review of Accounting Studies — 2023
- Session Chair, European Finance Association — 2023
- Committee Member, 8th ICGS Conference (Corporate Governance in a Digital Era) — 2022
- Committee Member, UF Research Conference on Machine Learning in Finance — 2022
- Journal referee, Journal of Accounting Research — 2022
- Journal referee, Review of Finance — 2021 to 2022
- Session Chair, 8th ICGS Conference (Corporate Governance in a Digital Era) — 2022
- Committee Member, Florida Finance Conference — 2021
- Committee Member, Inaugural Hogeg Blockchain Research Institute Conference — 2021
- Journal referee, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics — 2021
- Committee Member, Best Paper Award Review Committee for the 2020 FMA Conference — 2020
- Committee Member, Midwest Finance Association Program Committee — 2020
Journal article publications
- Carbon Offsets: Decarbonization or Transition-Washing?
- Status: 1st Revise and Resubmit
- Journal: Journal of Finance
- Published Year: 2025
- Authors: Sehoon Kim, Tao Li, Yanbin Wu
- Variable Deposit Betas and Bank Interest Rate Risk Exposure
- Status: Accepted
- Journal: Journal of Financial Intermediation
- Accepted Year: 2025
- Authors: Tao Li, Christopher James, M Emin
- Institutional Synergies and the Fragility of Loan Funds
- Status: 3rd Revise and Resubmit
- Journal: Review of Financial Studies, The
- Authors: Christopher James, Mustafa Emin, Tao Li, Jing lu
- Cryptocurrency Pump-and-Dump Schemes
- Status: Accepted
- Journal: Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
- Accepted Year: 2024
- Authors: Tao Li, Donghwa Shin, Baolian Wang
- Shareholder Monitoring Through Voting: New Evidence from Proxy Contests
- Status: Published
- Journal: Review of Financial Studies, The
- Accepted Year: 2023
- Author: Tao Li
- CEO Compensation, Stakeholders, and Fairness: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Status: Working Paper
- Author: Tao Li
- Power Tussle: Hedge Fund Activists and Short Sellers
- Status: Working Paper
- Authors: Tao Li, Pedro Saffi, Daheng Yang
- Social Networks and Investor Beliefs: Evidence from the Municipal Bond Market
- Status: Working Paper
- Authors: Tao Li, Jing Lu
- Social Networks and Hedge Fund Activism
- Status: Published
- Journal: Review of Finance
- Published Year: 2022
- Authors: Tao Li, Ellen He
- Conflicting Objectives of ESG Funds: Evidence from Proxy Voting
- Status: Working Paper
- Author: Tao Li
- Institutional Synergies and the Fragility of Loan Funds
- Status: 2nd Revise and Resubmit
- Journal: Review of Financial Studies, The
- Author: Tao Li
- Consumer Behavior and Food Prices during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Chinese Cities
- Status: Published
- Journal: Economic Inquiry
- Published Year: 2022
- Authors: Tao Li, Bixuan Yang, Frank Asche
- The Wisdom of Crowds in FinTech: Evidence from Initial Coin Offerings
- Status: Published
- Journal: The Review of Corporate Finance Studies
- Published Year: 2022
- Authors: Tao Li, Donghwa Shin, Jongsub Lee
- The Long Rise and Quick Fall of Appraisal Arbitrage
- Status: Published
- Journal: Boston University Law Review
- Published Year: 2020
- Authors: Tao Li, Randall Thomas, Wei Jiang
- Investor Ideology
- Status: Published
- Journal: Journal of Financial Economics
- Published Year: 2020
- Authors: Tao Li, Bolton Patrick, Enrichetta Ravina, Howard Rosenthal
- The Value of Access to Rail Transit in a Congested City: Evidence from Housing Prices in Beijing
- Status: Published
- Journal: Real Estate Economics
- Published Year: 2020
- Author: Tao Li
- Seeking Out Non-Public Information: Sell-Side Analysts and the Freedom of Information Act
- Status: Published
- Journal: Accounting Review
- Published Year: 2020
- Authors: Tao Li, April Klein, Bobo Zhang