【Speaker】Li Kai, Associate Professor of Finance,University of British Columbia

【Topic】Conflicts of Interests Among Shareholders:The Case of Corporate Acquisitions

【Time】14:30-16:00, July 2, Monday

【Venue】Room 301, Shunde Building, Tsinghua SEM

【Language】English/Chinese

【Organizer】Department of Finance

【Background Information】

Dr. Li holds the W.M. Young Endowed Chair in Finance at the Sauder School of Business, and has held various visiting positions at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Tuck School of Business, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business. Dr. Li’s current research focuses on the economic consequences of corporate governance mechanisms, and she has published in top finance and economic journals such asJournal of Finance,Journal of Financial Economics,Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Econometrics,Journal of Applied Econometrics, andStatistics in Medicine.At theSauderSchool, Dr. Li teaches capital structure, valuation, and security analysis at the MBA level. She also taught international finance at Xi’an Jiaotong University’s EMBA program, and empirical corporate finance at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business’ PhD program. Dr. Li received her BS in International Business from Xi’an Jiaotong University inChina, MA in Economics fromConcordiaUniversity, and PhD in Economics from theUniversityofToronto.