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Wei Xiong

- Verified email at csu.edu.cn - Cited by 25841

Wei Xiong

- Verified email at princeton.edu - Cited by 21481

Index investment and the financialization of commodities

K Tang, W Xiong - Financial Analysts Journal, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
The authors found that, concurrent with the rapidly growing index investment in commodity
markets since the early 2000s, prices of non-energy commodity futures in the United States …

Overconfidence and speculative bubbles

JA Scheinkman, W Xiong - Journal of political Economy, 2003 - journals.uchicago.edu
Motivated by the behavior of asset prices, trading volume, and price volatility during
episodes of asset price bubbles, we present a continuous‐time equilibrium model in which …

Investor attention, overconfidence and category learning

L Peng, W Xiong - Journal of Financial Economics, 2006 - Elsevier
Motivated by psychological evidence that attention is a scarce cognitive resource, we model
investors’ attention allocation in learning and study the effects of this on asset-price …

[HTML][HTML] Circular RNAs function as ceRNAs to regulate and control human cancer progression

…, C Fan, F Xiong, D Ren, X Ye, C Li, Y Wang, F Wei… - Molecular cancer, 2018 - Springer
Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are connected at the 3′ and 5′ ends by exon or intron cyclization,
forming a complete ring structure. circRNA is more stable and conservative than linear …

Ultrafast neuronal imaging of dopamine dynamics with designed genetically encoded sensors

…, JR Cho, K Merten, MW Howe, A Marley, WH Xiong… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Neuromodulators, such as dopamine, norepinephrine, or serotonin, exert
powerful control over neural circuit dynamics that give rise to diverse neural function and …

Realization utility

N Barberis, W Xiong - Journal of Financial Economics, 2012 - Elsevier
A number of authors have suggested that investors derive utility from realizing gains and
losses on assets that they own. We present a model of this “realization utility,” analyze its …

Contagion as a wealth effect

AS Kyle, W Xiong - The Journal of Finance, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Financial contagion is described as a wealth effect in a continuous‐time model with two
risky assets and three types of traders. Noise traders trade randomly in one market. Long‐term …

[HTML][HTML] Role of tumor microenvironment in tumorigenesis

…, Z Gong, S Zhang, J Zhou, K Cao, X Li, W Xiong… - Journal of …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Tumorigenesis is a complex and dynamic process, consisting of three stages: initiation,
progression, and metastasis. Tumors are encircled by extracellular matrix (ECM) and stromal …

Financialization of commodity markets

IH Cheng, W Xiong - Annu. Rev. Financ. Econ., 2014 - annualreviews.org
The large inflow of investment capital to commodity futures markets in the past decade has
generated a heated debate about whether financialization distorts commodity prices. Rather …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms of vasculogenic mimicry in hypoxic tumor microenvironments

…, H Wang, B Xiang, M Zhou, X Li, G Li, Y Li, W Xiong… - Molecular cancer, 2021 - Springer
Background Vasculogenic mimicry (VM) is a recently discovered angiogenetic process
found in many malignant tumors, and is different from the traditional angiogenetic process …