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Xuelai Li
Welcome! I am a Finance PhD Candidate at Imperial College London. My research mainly focuses on Entrepreneurial Finance and Innovation.
I will be joining Warwick Business School as an Assistant Professor of Finance in the summer of 2026.
You can find my CV here.
Working Papers
Venture Capital and Scientists' Selection into Entrepreneurship
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
Financing or Producing Innovation? The Allocation of Scientific Human Capital
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
Entrepreneurial Spillovers from Public R&D: Evidence from the Space Race
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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