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Zhi Li

Dr. Zhi Li

Associate Professor

Business and Economics, The George L. Argyros College of Business and Economics

Office Location: Beckman Hall 405 C

Email: zli@chapman.edu

Education:: Boston College, Master of Science
Arizona State University, Ph.D.

Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications: • “Curbing Financial Advisor Misconduct: The Power of Local Media”, Q. Peng and Z. Zhang, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis Volume 61, Issue 1 June 2025, page. 480-510.; Hidden Gems: Do market participants respond to performance expectations revealed in compensation disclosures? Journal of Accounting and Economics Volume 75, Issue 1, February 2023, 101519; "Hidden Gems: Do Compensation Disclosures Reveal Performance Expectations?" Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, invited publication by editor; “Hidden Gems: Do Market Participants Respond to Performance Expectation Revealed in Compensation Disclosure?”, Journal of Accounting and Economics (75), 2023; “Pay for outsiders: Compensation incentives for nonfamily executives in family firms” with Harley Ryan, and Lingling Wang, Contemporary Accounting Research, Volume 38 Issue 2, Page 1139-1176, 2021.; “The Dark Side of Executive Compensation Duration: Evidence from Mergers and Acquisitions”,with R. Peng. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2020.; “Accounting-based compensation plans and corporate debt contracts” with Lingling Wang, and Karen H. Wruck, Contemporary Accounting Research, Volume 37, Page 1475-1511, 2019.