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Jian Li

Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance

Assistant Professor

3022 Broadway

New York, NY 10027

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (16)

1.

Corporate Bond Multipliers: Substitutes Matter

Number of pages: 90 Posted: 16 Dec 2022 Last Revised: 31 May 2025
London School of Economics, Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
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Corporate bonds, inelastic demand, mutual funds, demand-based asset pricing

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Investor Composition and the Liquidity Component in the U.S. Corporate Bond Market

Number of pages: 104 Posted: 30 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2025
Jian Li and Haiyue Yu
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance and Princeton University - Department of Economics
Downloads 1,425 (34,095)
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Mutual fund, corporate bond, liquidity

The Dynamics of Deposit Flightiness and its Impact on Financial Stability

Number of pages: 81 Posted: 25 Jun 2024 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2026
Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance, University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business and Columbia University - Columbia Business School
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The Dynamics of Deposit Flightiness and its Impact on Financial Stability

NBER Working Paper No. w34128
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 18 Aug 2025
Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance, University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business and Columbia University - Columbia Business School
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The Market for Sharing Interest Rate Risk: Quantities and Asset Prices

Number of pages: 93 Posted: 31 Jul 2023 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2025
Umang Khetan, Jian Li and Ishita Sen
University of Iowa - Department of Finance, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance and Harvard University - Harvard Business School
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Interest rate risk, Pension funds, Insurers, Banks, Corporations, Demand elasticities, Swap spreads

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The Value of Data to Fixed Income Investors

Georgetown McDonough School of Business Research Paper No. 4343095
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 31 Jan 2023
Jennie Bai, Jian Li and Asaf Manela
Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance and Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School
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value of data, information, fixed income, corporate bond, institutional investor

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Borrowing from a Bigtech Platform

Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 21 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 07 Dec 2025
Jian Li and Stefano Pegoraro
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance and University of Notre Dame - Department of Finance
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Bigtech, platform, enforcement, adverse selection, moral hazard, advantageous screening, welfare, credit rationing

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Investor Concentration, Liquidity and Bond Price Dynamics

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 20 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 27 Nov 2023
Jian Li and Haiyue Yu
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Investor Concentration; Liquidity; Corporate Bond; COVID-19 Crisis; Price Dynamics

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Convenience Yield, Inflation Expectations, and Public Debt Growth

Number of pages: 87 Posted: 19 Mar 2022 Last Revised: 07 Jul 2025
Jian Li, Julie Zhiyu Fu and Yinxi Xie
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance, Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis and Indiana University Bloomington - Department of Economics
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Convenience yield; inflation expectation; fiscal policy; debt-to-GDP ratio

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The Benchmark Inclusion Subsidy

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 19 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 23 Dec 2020
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, Arizona State University (ASU) - Economics Department, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance and London Business School
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Project Valuation, Investment, Mergers, Asset Management, Benchmark

The Benchmark Inclusion Subsidy

University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2018-83
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 12 Dec 2018
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, Arizona State University (ASU) - Economics Department, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance and London Business School
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The Benchmark Inclusion Subsidy

NBER Working Paper No. w25337
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 11 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 26 Mar 2023
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, Arizona State University (ASU) - Economics Department, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance and London Business School
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The Benchmark Inclusion Subsidy

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13356
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 11 Dec 2018
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, Arizona State University (ASU) - Economics Department, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance and London Business School
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asset management, Benchmark, Index, investment, mergers, Project Valuation

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Is There Too Much Benchmarking in Asset Management?

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 28 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 20 Jul 2021
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, Arizona State University (ASU) - Economics Department, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance and London Business School
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Incentive Contracts, Moral Hazard, Relative Performance, Externality, Asset Management, Benchmark, Index, Welfare, ESG Investing

Is There Too Much Benchmarking in Asset Management?

NBER Working Paper No. w28020
Number of pages: 119 Posted: 02 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 24 Jul 2023
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, Arizona State University (ASU) - Economics Department, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance and London Business School
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Is There Too Much Benchmarking in Asset Management?

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP16296
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 14 Jul 2021
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, Arizona State University (ASU) - Economics Department, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance and London Business School
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Bank to Non-Bank Lending and the Reallocation of Credit

Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 5732322
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 13 Nov 2025 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2026
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, European Central Bank (ECB) - Directorate General Research and Columbia Business School
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, NBFIs, credit reallocation, capital regulation, Quantitative Tightening

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Intermediation via Credit Chains

University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2021-133, November 10, 2021
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 16 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 07 Oct 2025
Zhiguo He and Jian Li
Stanford University - Knight Management Center and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
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Financial intermediation, Debt runs, Shadow banking, Dynamic model, Money

Intermediation via Credit Chains

NBER Working Paper No. w29632
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 11 Jan 2022 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2023
Zhiguo He and Jian Li
Stanford University - Knight Management Center and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
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The Pricing and Welfare Implications of Non-anonymous Trading

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 08 Jun 2020
Ehsan Azarmsa and Jian Li
University of Illinois Chicago, College of Business Administration and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
Downloads 188 (405,402)

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OTC Markets, Relationship trading, Corporate bond market, Asymmetric information

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Which Intermediary Costs Matter for Asset Prices? 

Columbia Business School Research Paper (forthcoming)
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 06 Apr 2026
London School of Economics, Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
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Intermediary asset pricing, Demand shocks, Treasury market, Balance sheet costs

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Bank to non-bank lending and the reallocation of credit

ECB Working Paper No. 2026/3220
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 17 Apr 2026
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, European Central Bank (ECB) - Directorate General Research and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
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bank regulation, banks, financial intermediation, non-bank financial institutions, securities funding

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The Rise in Deposit Flightiness and its Implications for Financial Stability

Liberty Street Economics, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 5347227
Posted: 14 Jul 2025
Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance, University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business and Columbia University - Columbia Business School

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banking, deposits