2026 Ping Wang: 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	42	2087	1886	1204	1063	259	6698

Overview

Ping Wang is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within economics, econometrics, finance, and business management, reflecting a broad interdisciplinary approach.

The primary fields of study for Ping Wang include:

Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Business, Management and Accounting

Within these fields, subfields covered consist of:

Economics and Econometrics
Accounting
Strategy and Management
Finance
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance

The scope of their work focuses on core topics such as:

Corporate Finance and Governance
Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
Market Dynamics and Volatility
Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting
Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
Climate Change Policy and Economics

Ping Wang has published extensively in several academic venues. The most frequent publication platforms include:

SSRN Electronic Journal
International Journal of Finance & Economics
Journal of Business Finance & Accounting
Finance Research Letters
International Journal of Economic Theory

Recent papers attributed to Ping Wang showcase a diverse research portfolio. These include:

Construction of a New Financial E-Commerce Model for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Financing Based on Multiple Linear Logistic Regression, 2021, Journal of Organizational and End User Computing
The impact of economic complexity, technology advancements, and nuclear energy consumption on the ecological footprint of the USA: Towards circular economy initiatives, 2022, Gondwana Research
Do foreign institutional investors drive corporate social responsibility? Evidence from listed firms in China, 2020, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting
Does herding behavior exist in China's carbon markets?, 2021, Applied Energy
Cross-border mergers and acquisitions and corporate social responsibility: Evidence from Chinese listed firms, 2022, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting

Collaborations have been a significant part of Ping Wang's academic activity. Frequent co-authors include:

Bangzhu Zhu
Zhe Li
Wan-Jung Cheng
C. Y. Kelvin Yuen
Yang Tang

Best Publications

A General Two-Sector Model of Endogenous Growth with Human and Physical Capital: Balanced Growth and Transitional Dynamics

Eric W. Bond;Ping Wang;Chong K. Yip;Chong K. Yip

413
Citations
Human capital and endogenous growth evidence from Taiwan

Ellis W. Tallman;Ping Wang

274
Citations
Alternative Approaches to Money and Growth

Ping Wang;Chong K. Yip

266
Citations
Spatial Mismatch in Search Equilibrium

N. Edward Coulson;Derek Laing;Ping Wang

256
Citations
Knowledge exchange, matching, and agglomeration

Marcus Berliant;Robert R. Reed;Ping Wang

250
Citations
Outsourcing of Innovation

Edwin L.-C. Lai;Raymond Riezman;Ping Wang;Ping Wang

198
Citations
Learning, Matching and Growth

Derek Laing;Theodore Palivos;Ping Wang

196
Citations
CRIME AND POVERTY: A SEARCH-THEORETIC APPROACH ∗

Chien Chieh Huang;Derek Laing;Ping Wang

179
Citations
PRODUCTION EXTERNALITIES AND URBAN CONFIGURATION

Marcus Berliant;Shin-Kun Peng;Ping Wang

172
Citations
Spatial agglomeration and endogenous growth

Theodore Palivos;Theodore Palivos;Ping Wang

163
Citations
Dynamic linkage between real exchange rates and stock prices: Evidence from developed and emerging Asian markets

Unknown

154
Citations
Do foreign institutional investors drive corporate social responsibility? Evidence from listed firms in China

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150
Citations
Output, inflation, and stabilization in a small open economy: Evidence from Mexico

John H. Rogers;John H. Rogers;Ping Wang

140
Citations
Fertility choice and economic growth: theory and evidence.

Ping Wang;Chong K. Yip;Carol A. Scotese

139
Citations
Rural-Urban Migration, Structural Transformation, and Housing Markets in China

Carlos Garriga;Aaron Hedlund;Yang Tang;ping wang

121
Citations
FACTOR ACCUMULATION AND TRADE: DYNAMIC COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE WITH ENDOGENOUS PHYSICAL AND HUMAN CAPITAL ∗

Eric W. Bond;Kathleen Trask;Ping Wang

111
Citations
The integration of the credit default swap markets during the US subprime crisis: Dynamic correlation analysis

Unknown

103
Citations
On the Existence of Balanced Growth Equilibrium

Theodore Palivos;Ping Wang;Jianbo Zhang

101
Citations
Sudden changes in volatility: The case of five central European stock markets

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97
Citations
R&D in a Model of Search and Growth

Derek Laing;Theodore Palivos;Ping Wang

92
Citations
ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO MONEY AND GROWTH

Chong Yip;Ping Wang

87
Citations
Preference Bias and Outsourcing to Market: A Steady-State Analysis

Ping Wang;Raymond Riezman

87
Citations
Urban growth and subcenter formation: A trolley ride from the Staples Center to Disneyland and the Rose Bowl

Marcus Berliant;Ping Wang

76
Citations
Toward a general-equilibrium theory of a core-periphery system of cities

Hesham M. Abdel-Rahman;Ping Wang

74
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric W. Bond Vanderbilt University

John H. Rogers Fudan University

Donald S. Kenkel Cornell University

Jacques-François Thisse Université Catholique de Louvain

N. Edward Coulson University of California, Irvine

Robert C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski University of California, Berkeley

Philip T. Krein University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Yongheng Deng University of Wisconsin–Madison

Ronald W. Jones University of Rochester

Dianguo Xu Harbin Institute of Technology

External Links

Personal website of Ping Wang Google Scholar page

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