
Wei Xiong
Wei Xiong
Wei Xiong is the John H. Scully ’66 Professor in Finance and Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics and Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton University. His research interests center on capital market imperfections, behavioral finance, the digital economy, and China’s financial system. He has received various awards, including the 2018 China Economics Prize, the 2014 Inaugural Sun Yefang Financial Innovation Award, the 2013 NASDAQ OMX Award by the Western Finance Association, and the 2012 Smith Breeden Award by the American Finance Association. He received his Ph.D. in finance from Duke University in 2001, an M.A. in physics from Columbia University in 1995, and a B.S. in physics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1993. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, co-editor of the Journal of Finance, and Academic Dean of the School of Management and Economics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen.