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D-Index
63
Citations
23659
World Ranking
685
National Ranking
433

Wei Xiong publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wei Xiong sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 166 publications — 48th percentile

48% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 521 publications or more.

Wei Xiong D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wei Xiong sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 101+

This scientist: 63 D-Index — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

Overview

Wei Xiong is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Their body of work includes 41 publications across several related subfields, notably Economics and Econometrics, Finance, and Accounting. Additionally, Wei Xiong has contributed to research areas intersecting with Molecular Biology and Artificial Intelligence.

Their research spans various main topics including Financial Markets and Investment Strategies, Housing Market and Economics, and Banking stability, regulation, and efficiency. Other notable areas of their work cover Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis, Financial Literacy, Pension, and Retirement Analysis, Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth, as well as Blockchain Technology Applications and Security.

Wei Xiong's recent publications include several papers featured in prominent academic journals. These papers include:

  • Banking Crises Without Panics, 2020, The Quarterly Journal of Economics
  • China's Model of Managing the Financial System, 2021, The Review of Economic Studies
  • A Model of Cryptocurrencies, 2023, Management Science
  • Taming the bias zoo, 2021, Journal of Financial Economics
  • Economic Consequences of Housing Speculation, 2020, Review of Financial Studies

The frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Wei Xiong are:

  • Michael Sockin
  • Matthew Baron
  • Emil Verner
  • Zhenyu Gao
  • Wenxi Jiang

Wei Xiong often publishes in specific venues, with a notable concentration in the SSRN Electronic Journal, where they have contributed 21 publications. Other frequent venues include the Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Harvard Dataverse, and The Quarterly Journal of Economics.

In addition to articles, Wei Xiong has contributed to book publications. Notably, they authored a book titled The Handbook of China's Financial System, published by Princeton University Press in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Overconfidence and Speculative Bubbles

    José A. Scheinkman;Wei Xiong

  • INVESTOR ATTENTION, OVERCONFIDENCE AND CATEGORY LEARNING

    Lin Peng;Wei Xiong;Wei Xiong

  • Index Investment and Financialization of Commodities

    Ke Tang;Wei Xiong

  • Contagion as a Wealth Effect

    Albert S. Kyle;Wei Xiong

  • Index Investment and the Financialization of Commodities

    Unknown

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

    Nicholas Barberis;Wei Xiong

  • The Financialization of Commodity Markets

    Ing-Haw Cheng;Wei Xiong

  • Executive Compensation and Short-Termist Behaviour in Speculative Markets

    Patrick Bolton;Jose Scheinkman;Wei Xiong

  • Rollover Risk and Credit Risk

    Zhiguo He;Wei Xiong

  • Asset Float and Speculative Bubbles

    Harrison Hong;José Scheinkman;Wei Xiong

  • Financialization of Commodity Markets

    Ing-Haw Cheng;Wei Xiong;Wei Xiong

  • Dynamic Debt Runs

    Zhiguo He;Wei Xiong

  • Demystifying the Chinese Housing Boom

    Hanming Fang;Quanlin Gu;Wei Xiong;Li-An Zhou

  • Realization utility

    Unknown

  • Convergence trading with wealth effects: an amplification mechanism in financial markets

    Wei Xiong

  • Credit Expansion and Neglected Crash Risk

    Matthew Baron;Wei Xiong

  • Heterogeneous Expectations and Bond Markets

    Wei Xiong;Hongjun Yan

  • A Tale of Two Anomalies: The Implications of Investor Attention for Price and Earnings Momentum

    Kewei Hou;Wei Xiong;Wei Xiong;Lin Peng

  • The Chinese Warrants Bubble

    Wei Xiong;Jialin Yu

  • The Chinese Warrants Bubble

    Wei Xiong;Jialin Yu

  • Wall Street and the Housing Bubble

    Ing Haw Cheng;Sahil Raina;Wei Xiong

  • A Model of Cryptocurrencies

    Michael Sockin;Wei Xiong

  • Overconfidence and Speculative Bubbles

    Jose A. Scheinkman;Jose A. Scheinkman;Jose A. Scheinkman;Wei Xiong;Wei Xiong

  • Speculative Trading and Stock Prices: Evidence from Chinese A-B Share Premia

    Jianping Mei;Jose A. Scheinkman;Wei Xiong

  • Investor Attention: Overconfidence and Category Learning

    Wei Xiong;Wei Xiong;Lin Peng

  • Dynamic Debt Runs

    Wei Xiong;Zhiguo He

Frequent Co-Authors

Jose A. Scheinkman
Jose A. Scheinkman Columbia University
Zhiguo He
Zhiguo He Stanford University
Patrick Bolton
Patrick Bolton Imperial College London
Harrison G. Hong
Harrison G. Hong Columbia University
Markus K. Brunnermeier
Markus K. Brunnermeier Princeton University
Jianping Mei
Jianping Mei Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
Nicholas Barberis
Nicholas Barberis Yale University
Hanming Fang
Hanming Fang University of Pennsylvania
Ronnie Sircar
Ronnie Sircar Princeton University
Eric Maskin
Eric Maskin Harvard University

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