Professor Youwei Li

Professor Youwei Li

Professor of Finance

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Business, Law and Politics
  • Hull University Business School

Qualifications

  • PhD / DPhil (Tilburg University)

Summary

Dr Youwei Li is a Professor of Finance at Hull University Business School, UK, previously he worked at the Queen's University of Belfast. Professor Li holds a PhD in Financial Econometrics from Tilburg University, the Netherlands, and a PhD in Mathematics from Lanzhou University, China. He has published articles in areas of asset pricing, investment, longevity risk, market microstructure, and quantitative finance in peer-reviewed international journals, such as Management Science, European Journal of Operational Research, British Journal of Management, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Futures Markets, Financial Review, Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Quantitative Finance, and among many others. Professor Li's research is funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China, European Commission, Australia Research Council, and Economic and Social Research Council. Professor Li currently serves as Associate Editor for the European Journal of Finance, Finance Research Letters, International Journal of Finance & Economics, International Review of Financial Analysis, and Journal of Sustainable Finance and Accounting.

Professor Youwei Li has successfully supervised PhD students in areas of asset pricing, futures markets, foreign exchange market, market microstructure, sovereign bond markets, and stochastic mortality models. Professor Li regularly supervises China Scholarship Council (CSC) funded visiting Scholars and PhD students from Beijing Normal University, Central University of Finance and Economics, and Tianjin University.

Professor Li's research works can be found on his Google Scholar Profile (https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=ePhWkK0AAAAJ), his SSRN Profile (http://ssrn.com/author=539212), and the ORCID website (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2142-7607).

Recent outputs

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Journal Article

Make it Right: Regulatory Intervention in Managers' Misconduct and Corporate Risk

He, F., Du, H., Li, Y., & Hao, J. (online). Make it Right: Regulatory Intervention in Managers’ Misconduct and Corporate Risk. Journal of Business Ethics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-025-05934-w

Attention allocation: An empirical analysis of the asymmetric market responses to information shocks in China

Gao, Y., Han, X., Li, Y., Vigne, S. A., & Xiong, X. (online). Attention allocation: An empirical analysis of the asymmetric market responses to information shocks in China. Financial Review, https://doi.org/10.1111/fire.12425

The sword of damocles: Debt and depression

Zhou, J., Korkmaz, A. G., Li, Y., Yue, P., & Yan, Y. (2025). The sword of damocles: Debt and depression. International review of financial analysis, 98, Article 103877. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2024.103877

The Magnet Effect of Price Limits: An Agent-Based Approach

Dong, X., Chen, T., Gao, T., Li, H., & Li, Y. (online). The Magnet Effect of Price Limits: An Agent-Based Approach. Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, https://doi.org/10.1080/1540496X.2024.2434042

The nexus of overnight trend and asset prices in China

Guo, J., Han, X., Li, K., & Li, Y. (2025). The nexus of overnight trend and asset prices in China. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 170, Article 104997. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jedc.2024.104997

Research interests

Professor Li's main research interests include asset pricing, financial econometrics, FinTech, heterogeneous agent models of financial markets, longevity risk, market microstructure, quantitative finance, and sustainable finance.

Postgraduate supervision

Professor Li welcomes applications in the areas of asset pricing, empirical studies of financial markets, FinTech, and sustainable finance.

Awards and prizes

Modelling and Data Analytics on Cross Sectional Financial Risk: Evidence on Microscopic Data from Banking, Security Industry and Real Estates (with Yongjie Zhang), Project supported by the Key Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 72342022), CNY 2 Million, 2024-2027.

2024 - 2027

Research on the dynamic relationship between cross-platform social information network and asset price (with Yongjie Zhang),National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 72271184), CNY 500,000,2023-2026.

2023 - 2026

Research on the optimal decision and coordination for the platform owner and its sellers with the perspective of business ecosystem (with Wei Yan), National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 71971043), CNY 480,000. 2020-2023.

2020 - 2023

Asset pricing with adaptive learning and global games based on heterogeneous agent models (with Min Zheng and Xuezhong He), National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 71571197), CNY 580,400. 2016-2019.

2016 - 2019

The efficiency of futures markets, Seventh Framework Programme, The People Programme, The Marie Curie Actions, Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways, Grant agreement no.: 324440, European Commission, with Professor Michael Frommel (Ghent University, Belgium), Michael Moore (University of Warwick), and Dr. Alex Mende (Risk & Portfolio Management, Sweden). EUR 830,000. May 2013 --- May 2017.

2013 - 2017

Committee/Steering group role

Member of Programme Committee of The 13th International Conference on Futures and Other Derivatives, November 2024, Shandong University, Jinan, China.

2024

Member of Programme Committee of The 12th international Conference on Futures and Other Derivatives (ICFOD), November 2023, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China

2023

Scientific Committee of Quantitative Finance and Risk Analysis Symposium

2018 - 2024

Conference organisation

The Future Finance and Economics Conference in Naples, Italy

2022

The Future Finance and Economics Conference in Nanchang, China

2021

Asia-Pacific INFINITI Conference at Tianjin University, China

2019

External examiner role

PhD examiner for Dr Wenqiong Liu, Ghent University, Belgium

2024

PhD examiner for Dr Ronald Wafula, University College Dublin, Ireland

2024

PhD examiner for Dr Michael Kunkler, University of Reading

2023

PhD examiner for Dr Raheel Asif, Ghent University, Belgium

2021

PhD examiner for Dr Xinhui Yang, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China

2020

PhD examiner for Dr Shengjie Zhou, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China

2020

MSc in Finance and Accounting, MSc in Accounting Governance and Financial Management, the University of Sheffield

2019 - 2024

PhD examiner for DrStavros Stavroglou, University of Liverpool

2019

PhD examiner for DrYongbin Shi, Beijing Normal University, China

2019

PhD examiner for Dr Xuan Zhou, Beijing Normal University, China

2019

MSc Finance, MSc Finance and Investment, and MSc Financial Management, University of Bradford

2018 - 2022

BSc Accountancy and Finance, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow

2015 - 2019

Honorary position

Visiting Professor at Dalian University of Technology

2021 - 2024

Journal editorial role

Editorial Board Member of Journal of Sustainable Finance and Accounting

2024

Guest Editor of Special Issue "Corporate Governance 2023" of International Review of Financial Analysis

2023 - 2024

Associate Editor of International Journal of Finance & Economics

2022

Associate Editor of the European Journal of Finance

2020

Senior Editor of Finance Research Letters

2019

Associate Editor of International Review of Financial Analysis

2019

Research assessment service

Reviewer for U.S. National Science Foundation grants proposals

2024

Reviewer of grants proposals for International Science Partnerships Fund Research Collaborations (Global)

2024

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