Ph.D. Business Administration (Finance),
Michigan State University, 2018
M.S. Quantitative and Computational Finance,
Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012
Fields of Interest
Institutional investors
Portfolio choice and investment decisions
Corporate governance
Professional Experience
Financial Economist
Division of Economic and Risk Analysis
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
2023-present
Assistant Professor of Finance
Economics, Finance, Legal Studies
University of Alabama
2019-2023
Publications
Gantchev, Nickolay, Mariassunta Giannetti, and Rachel Li, 2024, Sustainability or performance? Ratings and fund managers' incentives, Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming.
Cvijanović, Dragana, Nickolay Gantchev, and Rachel Li, 2023, CEO succession roulette, Management Science 69.10: 5794-5815.
Grieser, William, Ryan Krause, Rachel Li, Richard Priem, and Andrei Simonov, 2023, Move fast and break things! innovation-intensive strategy, organizational permissiveness, and corporate wrongdoing, Long Range Planning 56, no. 2: 102294.
Gantchev, Nickolay, Mariassunta Giannetti, and Rachel Li, 2022, Does money talk? Divestitures and corporate environmental and social policies, Review of Finance 26.6: 1469-1508.
Working Papers
Boone, Audra L., William Grieser, Rachel Li, and Parth Venkat, 2024, Product Similarity, Benchmarking, and Corporate Fraud.
Costello, Charlie, Rachel Li, Sugata Ray, and Parth Venkat, 2023, Personal Convictions and ESG Investing.