2026 Nicholas Barberis: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	41	2101	1899	1208	1066	70	40392

Overview

Nicholas Barberis is primarily affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields including Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Decision Sciences. Their work is notably concentrated in subfields such as Finance, Management Science and Operations Research, and Economics and Econometrics.

The main topics explored in their research include:

Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
Capital Investment and Risk Analysis
Stock Market Forecasting Methods
Stochastic Processes and Financial Applications
Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis

Their recent scholarly output features papers published between 2021 and 2023, with articles appearing in journals such as The Journal of Finance and the SSRN Electronic Journal. Notable recent papers include:

Prospect Theory and Stock Market Anomalies, 2021, The Journal of Finance
Model-free and Model-based Learning as Joint Drivers of Investor Behavior, 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal
Model-Free and Model-Based Learning as Joint Drivers of Investor Behavior, 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent collaborators in their work include Lawrence J. Jin, BAOLIAN WANG, and Lawrence Jin, indicating a pattern of ongoing co-authorship and research partnership.

Their publications predominantly appear in venues such as the SSRN Electronic Journal and The Journal of Finance, reflecting a focus on outlets that specialize in finance and economics research.

Best Publications

A model of investor sentiment

Nicholas Barberis;Andrei Shleifer;Robert W. Vishny

8215
Citations
A survey of behavioral finance

Nicholas Barberis;Richard Thaler

5169
Citations
A model of investor sentiment1We are grateful to the NSF for financial support, and to Oliver Blanchard, Alon Brav, John Campbell (a referee), John Cochrane, Edward Glaeser, J.B. Heaton, Danny Kahneman, David Laibson, Owen Lamont, Drazen Prelec, Jay Ritter (a referee), Ken Singleton, Dick Thaler, an anonymous referee, and the editor, Bill Schwert, for comments.1

Nicholas Barberis;Andrei Shleifer;Robert Vishny

3337
Citations
Prospect Theory and Asset Prices

Nicholas Barberis;Ming Huang;Tano Santos

3202
Citations
Stocks as Lotteries: The Implications of Probability Weighting for Security Prices

Nicholas Barberis;Ming Huang

2385
Citations
Investing for the Long Run when Returns Are Predictable

Nicholas Barberis

2024
Citations
Thirty Years of Prospect Theory in Economics: A Review and Assessment

Nicholas C. Barberis

2016
Citations
Mental Accounting, Loss Aversion, and Individual Stock Returns

Nicholas Barberis;Ming Huang

1870
Citations
Mental Accounting, Loss Aversion, and Individual Stock Returns

Nicholas Barberis;Ming Huang

1688
Citations
X-CAPM: An Extrapolative Capital Asset Pricing Model

Nicholas Barberis;Robin Marc Greenwood;Lawrence Jin;Andrei Shleifer

1203
Citations
Chapter1. A Survey of Behavioral Finance

Nicholas Barberis;Richard Thaler

1190
Citations
What Drives the Disposition Effect? An Analysis of a Long-Standing Preference-Based Explanation

Nicholas Barberis;Wei Xiong

1009
Citations
Style investing

Unknown

986
Citations
A Model of Investor Sentiment

Nicholas Barberis;Nicholas Barberis;Andrei Shleifer;Andrei Shleifer;Robert W. Vishny;Robert W. Vishny

969
Citations
Individual Preferences, Monetary Gambles, and Stock Market Participation: A Case for Narrow Framing

Nicholas Barberis;Ming Huang;Richard H. Thaler

922
Citations
Comovement

Unknown

913
Citations
How Does Privatization Work? Evidence from the Russian Shops

Nicholas Barberis;Maxim Boycko;Andrei Shleifer;Natalia Tsukanova

851
Citations
Extrapolation and Bubbles

Nicholas Barberis;Robin Greenwood;Lawrence Jin;Andrei Shleifer

479
Citations
Realization utility

Unknown

424
Citations
A survey of behavioral finance

Nicholas Barberis;Nicholas Barberis;Richard H. Thaler;Richard H. Thaler

422
Citations
A Survey of Behavioral Finance

Unknown

417
Citations
Stocks as Lotteries: the Implications of Probability Weighting for Security Prices

Nicholas Barberis;Nicholas Barberis;Ming Huang

388
Citations
Prospect Theory and Stock Returns: An Empirical Test

Nicholas Barberis;Abhiroop Mukherjee;Baolian Wang

363
Citations
Using Neural Data to Test A Theory of Investor Behavior: An Application to Realization Utility.

Cary Frydman;Nicholas Barberis;Colin Camerer;Peter Bossaerts

319
Citations
The Psychology of Tail Events: Progress and Challenges

Nicholas Barberis

269
Citations
A Model of Casino Gambling

Nicholas Barberis

257
Citations
Psychology-based Models of Asset Prices and Trading Volume

Nicholas C Barberis;Nicholas C Barberis

213
Citations
Preferences with Frames: A New Utility Specification that Allows for the Framing of Risks

Nicholas Barberis;Ming Huang

195
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrei Shleifer Harvard University

Richard H. Thaler University of Chicago

Robin Greenwood Harvard University

Robert W. Vishny University of Chicago

Wei Xiong Princeton University

Antonio Rangel California Institute of Technology

Peter Bossaerts University of Cambridge

Colin F. Camerer California Institute of Technology

Pierre Collin-Dufresne École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Michael Firth Lingnan University

External Links

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