Rongchen Li

The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Job market paper

• "Intermediaries and Emissions Disclosures"

  Committee Members: Thomas Bourveau (co-chair), Matthias Breuer, Jonathan Glover (co-chair), Sehwa Kim
  

  • Media coverage: MSCI Sustainability Institute

Publications

• "Comply-or-Explain Regulation and Investor Protection"

  (w/ Thomas Bourveau, Xingchao Gao, and Frank Zhou)
  Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2025.
  



• "Governance by Persuasion: Hedge Fund Activism and Market-Based Shareholder Influence"

  (w/ Alon Brav and Wei Jiang)
  Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Economics and Finance, 2022.

  • Media coverage: The CLS Blue Sky Blog, The University of Chicago Business Law Review

Working papers

• "Current Expected Credit Losses (CECL) Standard and Banks' Information Production"

  (w/ Sehwa Kim, Seil Kim, and Anya Kleymenova)
  R&R at The Accounting Review, FEDS Working Paper No. 2023-63.
  

Work in progress

• "Corporate Footprints"

  (w/ Thomas Barry, Matthias Breuer, Maxi Muhn, Thomas Rauter, and Harm Schütt)
  

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