Rate My Professor Bin Li

Dr. Bin Li serves as an Associate Professor of Finance in the Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics at Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. He obtained his PhD in Finance and a Master's degree in Financial Management from the University of Queensland, along with a Bachelor's degree in Finance from Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China. Dr. Li's research focuses on empirical asset pricing, consumption-based asset pricing, market efficiency, international finance, and investments. He is a key member of the Centre for Personal Finance and Superannuation and actively contributes to the academic community through teaching and supervision. As course convenor for Portfolio Management (7245AFE), he imparts advanced knowledge in investment strategies to students at Griffith University.

Dr. Li's career trajectory at Griffith University includes positions as Lecturer and Senior Lecturer prior to his current role as Associate Professor. His scholarly output is substantial, with over 90 research works accumulating more than 889 citations on ResearchGate. Prominent publications include 'Effectiveness of Policy Interventions during Financial Crises in Asia-Pacific Stock Markets' (Singh et al., 2021, cited 40 times), 'Predicting stock market returns in the US' (Li et al., 2020, cited 9 times), 'Lagged Country Returns and International Stock Return Predictability' (Wen and Li, 2020, cited 15 times), 'Realised volatility and industry momentum returns' (Chen et al., 2022), 'Unpacking the impact of China's economic policy uncertainty on Asian stock markets' (Chen, Li, Singh, and Worthington, 2024), 'Optimal REIT Portfolio Selection Using Machine Learning' (Zhang et al., 2025), 'Monthly seasonality in currency returns: 1972-2010' (Li and Liu, 2011, cited 6 times), and 'Risk and Returns in the Asian Pacific Markets' (Li, 2011, cited 4 times). These contributions explore critical themes such as policy responses to crises, stock return predictability, momentum effects, higher moments in asset pricing, and applications of advanced methodologies in financial markets, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region. Dr. Li's work advances theoretical and empirical understanding in finance, influencing ongoing research in asset pricing and international investments.