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Xuelai Li
Welcome! I am an incoming Assistant Professor of Finance at Warwick Business School. My research mainly focuses on Entrepreneurial Finance and Innovation.​
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I received my PhD in Finance from Imperial College London and my BEcon in Finance from Peking University.
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​​You can find my CV here.
Working Papers
Venture Capital and Scientists' Selection into Entrepreneurship [SSRN]
Conferences: AFA, FMA Special PhD Paper Presentations, BSE Summer Forum, Wharton Innovation Doctoral Symposium, RAPS/RCFS Europe Conference, Scientific Workshop on Productivity, HEC Paris Finance PhD Workshop, SFA, DGF Annual Meeting, FMA Europe Doctoral Student Consortium, Imperial UK Women in Finance​​​​
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Financing or Producing Innovation? The Allocation of Scientific Human Capital [SSRN]
with Yuchen Chen and Can Huang​​
Conferences: Wabash River Finance Conference*, Chicago Entrepreneurial Finance Workshop*, CityU International Finance Conference*, CES NA Annual Conference*, Helsinki Finance Summit
Commercialization Infrastructure, External Finance, and Academic Entrepreneurship [SSRN] [NEW!]
with Xizhao Wang
Entrepreneurial Spillovers from Public R&D: Evidence from the Space Race [SSRN]
Conferences: DRUID Academy, Luiss Institute for European Analysis and Policy, International Conference on the Science of Science and Innovation
Work in Progress
Path Dependence in Venture Capital Financing
​with Jamie Coen, Patrick Coen, Ramana Nanda, and Savitar Sundaresan​
Presentation: Cambridge PE, VC and Innovation Conference*
* by co-authors
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