Mengyu Li is an Associate Professor in School of Economics at Beijing Technology and Business University and a visiting scholar at University College Cork, Ireland. She received her PhD in Economics from the School of Finance at Nankai University. During her doctoral studies, she was a joint-training PhD student at the University of New South Wales in Australia and worked in Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre (CMCRC).
Dr. Li has published more than twenty papers as first author or corresponding author in leading Chinese and international journals, including Financial Research, International Financial Research, Nankai Economic Studies, Economic Change and Restructuring, and the Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics. Her research has contributed to empirical and theoretical understanding of trading behavior, market microstructure, and systemic risk transmission in capital markets.
She has led several major research projects, including the National Social Science Foundation project “Mechanisms and Policy Responses to Stock Market Systemic Risk Triggered by Market Manipulation under the Comprehensive Registration System” and another national project on anti-manipulation mechanisms in China’s stock market from a systemic-risk-prevention perspective. She has also directed a Beijing Social Science Foundation project on the indicator system and pathways for high-quality economic development in Beijing from an international comparative perspective, as well as a Young Talent Training Program project examining the effectiveness of China’s environmental information disclosure system under the dual-carbon targets.
Her primary research interests include capital market microstructure and financial risk management. She teaches courses in Financial Engineering and Financial Derivatives.
