WEI   XIONG

 

Professor of Economics

Department of Economics and Bendheim Center for Finance

Princeton University

Telephone: (609) 258-0282
Fax: (609) 258-0771

Email: wxiong@princeton.edu

  Vita

Publications:

·        Convergence Trading with Wealth Effects: An Amplification Mechanism in Financial Markets, Journal of Financial Economics 62, 2001, 247-292.

·        Contagion as a Wealth Effect, with Albert Kyle, Journal of Finance 56, 2001, 1401-1440.

·        Overconfidence and Speculative Bubbles, with Jose Scheinkman, Journal of Political Economy 111, 2003, 1183-1219.

·        Heterogeneous Beliefs, Speculation and Trading in Financial Markets, with Jose Scheinkman, Paris-Princeton Lectures on Mathematical Finance 2003, 217-250, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.  

·        Pay for Short-Term Performance: Executive Compensation in Speculative Market, with Patrick Bolton and Jose Scheinkman, Journal of Corporation Law 30, 2005, 721-747

·        Executive Compensation and Short-termist Behavior in Speculative Markets, with Patrick Bolton and Jose Scheinkman, Review of Economic Studies 73, 2006, 577-610.

·        Asset Float and Speculative Bubbles, with Harrison Hong and Jose Scheinkman, Journal of Finance 61, 2006, 1073-1117.           

·        Investor Attention, Overconfidence and Category Learning, with Lin Peng, Journal of Financial Economics 80, 2006, 563-602.

·        Prospect Theory and Liquidation Decisions, with Albert Kyle and Hui Ou-Yang, Journal of Economic Theory 129, 2006, 273-288.

·        A General Framework for Evaluating Executive Stock Options, with Ronnie Sircar, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 31, 2007, 2317-2349.

·        Investor Attention and Time-Varying Comovements, with Tim Bollerslev and Lin Peng, European Financial Management 13, 2007, 394-422.

·        Advisors and Asset Prices: A Model of the Origins of Bubbles, with Harrison Hong and Jose Scheinkman, Journal of Financial Economics 89, 2008, 268-287.

·        What Drives the Disposition Effect? An Analysis of a Long-Standing Preference-Based Explanation, with Nicholas Barberis, Journal of Finance 64, 2009, 751-784.

·        Speculative Trading and Stock Prices: Evidence from Chinese A-B Share Premia, with Jianping Mei and Jose Scheinkman, Annals of Economics and Finance 10, 2009, 225-255.

·        Heterogeneous Expectations and Bond Markets, with Hongjun Yan, Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming.

Selected Working Papers: 

·        A Tale of Two Anomalies: The Implication of Investor Attention for Price and Earnings Momentum, with Kewei Hou and Lin Peng.

·        R-squared and Price Inefficiency, with Kewei Hou and Lin Peng.

·        Realization Utility, with Nicholas Barberis.

·        Multi-market Delegated Asset Management, with Zhiguo He.

·        The Chinese Warrants Bubble, with Jialin Yu.

·        Dynamic Debt Runs, with Zhiguo He.

·        Index Investing and the Financialization of Commodities, with Ke Tang

·        Rollover Risk and Credit Risk, with Zhiguo He.