Hao, Huang, Nancai, Yu, Lei, Fu, Xiong, Wei, Wen, Su, Guofu, Huang, ...
H.: Moving object extraction with a hand-held camera (2009)
Guofeng Zhang, Jiaya Jia, Wei Xiong, Tien-tsin Wong, Pheng-ann Heng, Hujun Bao
This paper presents a new method to detect and accurately extract the moving object from a video sequence taken by a hand-held camera. In order to extract the high quality moving foreground, previous...
Deciphering the Liquidity and Credit Crunch 2007-08 (2009)
Markus K. Brunnermeier, José Scheinkman, Til Schuermann, Hyun Shin, James Vickery, Glen Weyl, ...
This paper summarizes and explains the main events of the liquidity and credit crunch in 2007-08. Starting with the trends leading up to the crisis, I explain how these events unfolded and how four...
Castorena, Michelle, Hawkins, Caitlin, Hupert, Nathaniel, King, Kathleen, Muckstadt, John, Wu, Cindie, ...
The public health response to a bioterrorist attack or other large-scale health emergency may include mass prophylaxis using multiple Points of Dispensing (PODs) to deliver countermeasures rapidly to...
Moving Object Extraction with a Hand-held Camera (2009)
Guofeng Zhang, Jiaya Jia, Wei Xiong, Tien-tsin Wong, Pheng-ann Heng, Hujun Bao
This paper presents a new method to detect and accurately extract the moving object from a video sequence taken by a hand-held camera. In order to extract the high quality moving foreground, previous...
Gao, Yang, Xiong, Wei, Li, Xiao-bo, Gao, Chun-Fang, Zhang, Yi-liang, Li, Han, ...
The diversified physiological responses in cyanobacteria under ultraviolet-B (UV-B) radiation have been broadly researched. The changes in the metabolic control mechanisms hidden behind these...
Zhang, Wenling, Zeng, Zhaoyang, Zhou, Yanhong, Xiong, Wei, Fan, Songqing, Xiao, Lan, ...
Previous studies have revealed that Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) was closely associated with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). This study aimed to characterize the global pathways affected in the...
4,4′-Bipyridinium 1,4-phenylenediacetate (2009)
Maomao Jia, Xianlin Liu, Jing Miao, Wei Xiong, Zilu Chen
The title compound, C10H10N22+·C10H8O42−, has inversion centres located at the geometric centres of the 1,4-phenylenediacetate anion and 4,4′-bipyridinium cation. The anions and...
N-(1H-1,2,4-Triazol-5-yl)pyridine-2-carboxamide (2009)
Jing Miao, Maomao Jia, Xianlin Liu, Wei Xiong, Zilu Chen
In the structure of the title compound, C8H7N5O, the pyridine ring and the imidazole ring are nearly coplanar, making a dihedral angle of 2.97 (15)°. An intramolecular N—H...O...
Knowledge-Guided Semantic Indexing of Breast Cancer Histopathology Images (2008)
Adina Eunice Tutac, Daniel Racoceanu, Thomas Putti, Wei Xiong, Wee-kheng Leow, Vladimir Cretu
Narrowing the semantic gap represents one of the most outstanding challenges in medical image analysis and indexing. This paper introduces a medical knowledge – guided paradigm for semantic...
Zhou, Changhua, Nitschke, Ashley M, Xiong, Wei, Zhang, Qiang, Tang, Yan, Bloch, Michael, ...
Abstract Introduction Despite intensive study of the mechanisms of chemotherapeutic drug resistance in human breast cancer, few reports have systematically investigated the mechanisms that underlie...
Queueing Analysis of a Server Node in Transaction Processing Middleware Systems (2008)
Quantitative performance modeling of complex information systems is of immense importance for designing enterprise e-business infrastructures and applications. In this paper, we present a traffic...
©2007 Association of Schools of Public Health SYNOPSIS (2008)
Ms A, Nathaniel Hupert, Mph B, Wei Xiong, ...
Community-based mass prophylaxis is a core public health operational competency, but staffing needs may overwhelm the local trained health workforce. Just-in-time (JIT) training of emergency staff...
query topic dependent image features (2008)
Wei Xiong, Bo Qiu, Qi Tian, Henning Müller, Changsheng Xu
novel content-based medical image retrieval method based on
Hao, Huang, Nancai, Yu, Lei, Fu, Xiong, Wei, Wen, Su, Guofu, Huang, ...
Abstract The c-Myc and human telomerase reverse transcriptase gene (hTERT) gene are frequently deregulated and overexpressed in malignancy. hTERT activity is induced by c-Myc and strategies designed...
Xiong, Wei, Hupert, Nathaniel, Hollingsworth, Eric B, O'Brien, Megan E, Fast, Jessica, Rodriguez, William R
Abstract Background Mathematical modeling has been applied to a range of policy-level decisions on resource allocation for HIV care and treatment. We describe the application of classic operations...
A semi-automated method for liver tumor segmentation based on 2D region growing with (2008)
Wong, Damon, Liu, Jiang, Yin, Fengshou, Tian, Qi, Zhou, Jiayin, Xiong, Wei, ...
Liver tumour segmentation from computed tomography (CT) scans is a challenging task. A semi-automatic method based on 2D region growing with knowledge-based constraints is proposed to segment lesions...
A semi-automated method for liver tumor segmentation based on 2D region growing with (2008)
Wong, Damon, Liu, Jiang, Yin, Fengshou, Tian, Qi, Xiong, Wei, Zhou, Jiayin, ...
Liver tumour segmentation from computed tomography (CT) scans is a challenging task. A semi-automatic method based on 2D region growing with knowledge-based constraints is proposed to segment lesions...
Qi, Yingyi, Xiong, Wei, Leow, Wee Keng, Tian, Qi, Zhou, Jiayin, Liu, Jiang, ...
Automatic segmentation of liver tumorous regions often fails due to high noise and large variance of tumors. In this work, a semi-automatic algorithm is proposed to segment liver tumors from computed...
Zhou, Jiayin, Xiong, Wei, Tian, Qi, Qi, Yingyi, Liu, Jiang, Leow, Wee Keng, ...
A semi-automatic scheme was developed for the segmentation of 3D liver tumors from computed tomography (CT) images. First a support vector machine (SVM) classifier was trained to extract tumor region...
A semi-automated method for liver tumor segmentation based on 2D region growing with (2008)
Wong, Damon, Liu, Jiang, Yin, Fengshou, Tian, Qi, Zhou, Jiayin, Xiong, Wei, ...
Liver tumour segmentation from computed tomography (CT) scans is a challenging task. A semi-automatic method based on 2D region growing with knowledge-based constraints is proposed to segment lesions...
Analysis of stress sensitivity and its influence on oil production from tight reservoirs (2008)
Lei, Qun, Xiong, Wei, Yuan, Cui, Wu, Yu-Shu
This paper presents a study of the relationship between permeability and effective stress in tight petroleum reservoir formations. Specifically, a quantitative method is developed to describe the...
Combining Multilevel Visual Features for Medical Image Retrieval in ImageCLEFmed 2005 (2008)
Wei Xiong, Bo Qiu, Qi Tian, Changsheng Xu, S. H. Ong, Kelvin Foong
In this paper we report our work on the fully automatic medical image retrieval task in ImageCLEFmed 2005. First, we manually identify visually similar sample images by visual perception for each...
An Analytical Approach for Performance Analysis of J2EE Application servers (2008)
With the advent of new technologies, there is an increasing demand for computer systems with stringent time constraints. The goal of our research is to compute client response times in J2EE...
A CAPACITY PLANNING TOOL FOR THE TUXEDO MIDDLEWARE USED IN TRANSACTION PROCESSING SYSTEMS (2008)
B. A. Peters, J. S. Smith, D. J. Medeiros, M. W. Rohrer, Tayfur Altiok, Wei Xiong
In this paper, we present a brief overview of Tuxedo middleware system (BEA Systems) and introduce an objectoriented computer simulation template developed for the purpose of capacity planning and...
My current work concerns the hydrodynamics of particles immersed in a thermally fluctuating, viscous, incompressible solvent. The governing equations stipulate conservation of momentum in the fluid,...
My current work concerns the hydrodynamics of particles immersed in a thermally fluctuating, viscous, incompressible solvent. The governing equations stipulate conservation of momentum in the fluid,...
Knowledge-Guided Semantic Indexing of Breast Cancer Histopathology Images (2008)
Tutac, Adina, Racoceanu, Daniel, Putti, Thomas, Xiong, Wei, Leow, Wee-Kheng, Cretu, Vladimir
Narrowing the semantic gap represents one of the most outstanding challenges in medical image analysis and indexing. This paper introduces a medical knowledge – guided paradigm for semantic...
Knowledge-Guided Semantic Indexing of Breast Cancer Histopathology Images (2008)
Tutac, Adina, Racoceanu, Daniel, Putti, Thomas, Xiong, Wei, Leow, Wee-Kheng, Cretu, Vladimir
Narrowing the semantic gap represents one of the most outstanding challenges in medical image analysis and indexing. This paper introduces a medical knowledge guided paradigm for semantic indexing...
Wei Xiong, Huihui Xing, Yan Su, Zilu Chen
In the title compound, [Y(C5H2N2O4)(C5H3N2O4)(C12H8N2)2]·2H2O, the YIII ion lies on a twofold rotation axis and exhibits a distorted square-antiprismatic coordination geometry. It is chelated by...
Wei Xiong, Huihui Xing, Yan Su, Zilu Chen
The title compound, [Gd(C5H2N2O4)(C5H3N2O4)(C12H8N2)2]·2H2O, was obtained from a solvothermal reaction of 2,4-dihydroxypyrimidine-5-carboxylic acid (H3iso), GdCl3·6H2O and...
Primary visual cortex is a classic model to study experience-dependent brain plasticity. In early life, if one eye is deprived of normal vision, there can be a dramatic change in the ocular dominance...
NOTHING SWEET NOTHING: A COLLECTION OF SHORT FICTION (2007)
This collection is a representation of my work in the graduate fiction workshop at Miami University from fall 2005 to spring 2007
NOTHING SWEET NOTHING: A COLLECTION OF SHORT FICTION (2007)
This collection is a representation of my work in the graduate fiction workshop at Miami University from fall 2005 to spring 2007
SynDB: a Synapse protein DataBase based on synapse ontology (2007)
Zhang, Wuxue, Zhang, Yong, Zheng, Hui, Zhang, Chen, Xiong, Wei, Olyarchuk, John G., ...
A synapse is the junction across which a nerve impulse passes from an axon terminal to a neuron, muscle cell or gland cell. The functions and building molecules of the synapse are essential to almost...
Manipulation of the quantum state by Majorana transition in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates (2006)
Xia, Lin, Xu, Xu, Yang, Fan, Xiong, Wei, Li, Juntao, Ma, Qianli, ...
Manipulation of the quantum state by the Majorana transition in spinor BEC system has been realized by altering the rotation frequency of the magnetic field's direction. This kind of manipulation...
A general framework for evaluating executive stock options (2006)
Motivated by recent recommendations by both European and American accounting standards boards that executive stock options be expensed in firms ’ statements, we provide an analytical and flexible...
Sheng-Wei Jin, Li Zhang, Qin-Quan Lian, Shang-Long Yao, Ping Wu, Xiao-Yan Zhou, ...
Aim. To investigate the role of Ca2+ release-activated Ca2+ (CRAC) channels in the ROS production in macrophages. Methods. The intracellular [Ca2+]i was analyzed by confocal laser microscopy. The...
Wei Xiong, Bo Qiu, Qi Tian, Changsheng Xu, S. H. Ong
We propose a novel framework for content-based image retrieval with multiple parallel retrieval engines (MultiPRE) to achieve higher retrieval performance. Visual features, including both low-level...
Ma, Jian, Zhou, Jie, Fan, Songqing, Wang, Lili, Li, Xiaoling, Yan, Qun, ...
The epidermal growth factor (EGF)-like domain is involved in receptor–ligand interactions, extracellular matrix formation, cell adhesion and chemotaxis. Nasopharyngeal carcinoma associated gene 6...
Speculative Trading and Stock Prices: An Analysis of Chinese A-B Share Premia (2004)
Mei, Jianping, Scheinkman, Jose A., Xiong, Wei
China’s stock markets, with stringent short-sales constraints, dominance of inexperienced individual investors, a small asset float and heavy share turnover (500% per year despite a high...
Speculative Trading and Stock Prices: An Analysis of Chinese A-B Share Premia (2004)
Mei, Jianping, Scheinkman, Jose A., Xiong, Wei
China’s stock markets, with stringent short-sales constraints, dominance of inexperienced individual investors, a small asset float and heavy share turnover (500% per year despite a high...
Speculative Trading and Stock Prices: An Analysis of Chinese A-B Share (2004)
Jianping Mei, Jose A. Scheinkman, Wei Xiong
China's stock markets, with stringent short-sales constraints, dominance of inexperienced individual investors, a small asset float and heavy share turnover (500% per year despite a high...
Evaluating Incentive Options (2004)
We provide an analytical and flexible framework to evaluate executive stock options. Our model takes into account the vesting period, American style, resetting and reloading provisions that are...
Ma, Jian, Zhou, Jie, Fan, Songqing, Wang, Lili, Li, Xiaoling, Yan, Qun, ...
The EGF-like domain is involved in receptor-ligand interactions, extracellular matrix formation, cell adhesion and chemotaxis. NGX6 is a novel EGF-like domain containing gene located at the high...
Pingyao : the living ancient city / (2003)
Thesis (M. Arch.)--Texas Tech University, 2003.
short-sale constraints, and bubbles (2003)
Motivated by the behavior of internet stock prices in 1998-2000, we present a continuous time equilibrium model of bubbles where overconfidence generates agreements to disagree among agents about...
Information Leakage and Market Efficiency (2003)
Markus Brunnermeier, Margaret Bray, Smita Brunnermeier, Thomas De, Clemens Grafe, Dominik Hotz, ...
This paper analyzes the effects of information leakage on trading behavior and market efficiency. It shows that a trader who receives a leaked signal prior to a public announcement can exploit this...
Prospect Theory and Liquidation Decisions (2003)
Albert S. Kyle, Hui Ou-yang, Wei Xiong
this paper is to investigate formally the e#ect of prospect theory on the liquidation decisions of economic agents. Specifically, we analyze an agent with a project (or an indivisible asset). The...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Cleveland State University, 2003.
Xiong, Wei, Hsieh, Ching-Chyuan, Kurtz, Andrew J., Rabek, Jeffrey P., Papaconstantinou, John
The mRNA of the intronless, single-copy CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein-&bgr; (C/EBP&bgr;) gene encodes several isoforms that have truncated transcription activation domains. This occurs by...
PIV-Untersuchungen im Nahfeld von Strömungsgleichrichtern / (2000)
Zugl.: Essen, Universiẗat, Diss., 2000.
Content-based video similarity computation and indexing /--by Wei Xiong. (1998)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 1998.
Automatic and Dynamic Video Manipulation (1998)
Video data management is fast becoming one of the most important topics in multimedia databases. In this chapter, we describe the development of an experimental video information management system,...
Efficient scene change detection and camera motion annotation for video classification (1997)
Xiong, Wei, Lee, John Chung-Mong
With the fast growth of video sources, efficient video classification and management is becoming more and more important. Video partitioning and video features extraction are two of the key issues in...
Automatic video data structuring through shot partitioning and key frame selection (1996)
Xiong, Wei, Lee, John Chung-Mong, Ma, Rui-Hua
In this paper, we propose automatic solutions to the problems: (i) video partitioning, (ii) key frame selection, (iii) key frame pruning. For the first problem, an algorithm called "Net Comparision"...
An experimental video database management system based on advanced object-oriented techniques (1996)
Liusheng Huang, Qing Li, Wei Xiong
Video data management is fast becoming one of the most important topics in multimedia databases. Most of the recent work on video databases has so far focused on video classification, feature...
VIMS: Towards an Adaptive and Versatile Video Manipulation Server (1996)
John Chung-Mong, Lee Qing Li, Wei Xiong
Recently, there has been much research on video manipulation in the area of video-on-demand and video databases. Most of the recent work has so far focused on video classification, feature...
Net comparison: an adaptive and effective method for scene change detection (1995)
Xiong, Wei, Lee, John Chung-Mong
As video information proliferates, managing video sources becomes increasingly important. Automatic video partitioning is a prerequisite for organizing and indexing video sources. Several methods...
Certificates of financial responsibility under Oil Pollution Act of 1990 /--by Wei Xiong. (1995)
Thesis (M.S.)--SUNY Maritime, 1995.
Net Comparison: An Adaptive and Effective Method for Scene Change Detection (1995)
As video information proliferates, managing video sources becomes increasingly important. Automatic video partitioning is a prerequisite for organizing and indexing video sources. Several methods...
Net Comparison: A Fast and Effective Method for Classifying Image Sequences (1995)
As video information proliferates, managing video sources becomes increasingly important. Automatic video partitioning is a prerequisite for organizing and indexing video sources. Several methods...
Video Segment Indexing Through Classification and Interactive View-based Query (1995)
Wei Xiong, Ding-Gang Shen, Ruihua Ma
. As video information proliferates, managing video sources becomes increasingly important. Indices must be constructed to allow any future retrieval. We distinguish two categories of indexing: (i)...
VIMS: A Video Information Management System (1992)
Qing Li, Wei Xiong, Hongjiong Zhang
. Video data management is fast becoming one of the most important topics in multimedia databases. In this paper, we describe the development of an experimental video information management system,...
Ionisation d'atomes par un laser CO2 intense par l'effet tunnel [microforme] / (1990)
En anglais avec résumé en français.
Ionisation d'atomes par un laser CO2 intense par l'effet tunnel / (1990)
En anglais avec résumé en français.
Ionisation multiphotonique du Mg par un laser excimère XeCI [microforme] / (1986)
Texte en anglais.
Speculative Trading and Stock Prices: Evidence from Chinese A-B Share Premia
Jianping Mei, Jose Scheinkman, Wei Xiong
The market dynamics of technology stocks in the late nineties has stimulated a growing body of theories that analyze the joint effects of short-sales constraints and heterogeneous beliefs on stock...
Asset Float and Speculative Bubbles
Harrison Hong, Jose Scheinkman, Wei Xiong
We model the relationship between asset float (tradeable shares) and speculative bubbles. Investors trade a stock with limited float because of insider lock-ups. They have heterogeneous beliefs due...
Investor Attention: Overconfidence and Category Learning
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 dynamics. We show...
Pay for Short-Term Performance: Executive Compensation in Speculative Markets
Patrick Bolton, Jose Scheinkman, Wei Xiong
We argue that the root cause behind the recent corporate scandals associated with CEO pay is the technology bubble of the latter half of the 1990s. Far from rejecting the optimal incentive...
Overconfidence and Speculative Bubbles
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 overconfidence...
Hsieh, Ching-Chyuan, Xiong, Wei, Xie, Qizhi, Rabek, Jeffrey P., Scott, Sheen G., An, Mi Ra, ...
The CCAAT/enhancer binding protein α (C/EBPα) and CCAAT/enhancer binding protein β (C/EBPβ) mRNAs are templates for the differential translation of several isoforms. Immunoblotting detects...
Xiong, Wei, Hsieh, Ching-Chyuan, Kurtz, Andrew J., Rabek, Jeffrey P., Papaconstantinou, John
The mRNA of the intronless, single-copy CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein-β (C/EBPβ) gene encodes several isoforms that have truncated transcription activation domains. This occurs by the alternative...
Kang, Xiaoping, Yang, Bao-an, Hu, Yuyang, Zhao, Hui, Xiong, Wei, Yang, Yinhui, ...
Human recombinant Fab fragments specific for the spike protein of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) were screened from a human Fab library, which was generated from RNAs from...
Hsieh, Ching-Chyuan, Xiong, Wei, Xie, Qizhi, Rabek, Jeffrey P., Scott, Sheen G., An, Mi Ra, ...
The CCAAT/enhancer binding protein α (C/EBPα) and CCAAT/enhancer binding protein β (C/EBPβ) mRNAs are templates for the differential translation of several isoforms. Immunoblotting detects...
Xiong, Wei, Hsieh, Ching-Chyuan, Kurtz, Andrew J., Rabek, Jeffrey P., Papaconstantinou, John
The mRNA of the intronless, single-copy CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein-β (C/EBPβ) gene encodes several isoforms that have truncated transcription activation domains. This occurs by the alternative...
Kang, Xiaoping, Yang, Bao-an, Hu, Yuyang, Zhao, Hui, Xiong, Wei, Yang, Yinhui, ...
Human recombinant Fab fragments specific for the spike protein of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) were screened from a human Fab library, which was generated from RNAs from...
Jin, Sheng-Wei, Zhang, Li, Lian, Qin-Quan, Yao, Shang-Long, Wu, Ping, Zhou, Xiao-Yan, ...
Aim. To investigate the role of Ca2+ release-activated Ca2+ (CRAC) channels in the ROS production in macrophages. Methods. The intracellular [Ca2+]i was analyzed by confocal laser microscopy. The...
SynDB: a Synapse protein DataBase based on synapse ontology
Zhang, Wuxue, Zhang, Yong, Zheng, Hui, Zhang, Chen, Xiong, Wei, Olyarchuk, John G., ...
A synapse is the junction across which a nerve impulse passes from an axon terminal to a neuron, muscle cell or gland cell. The functions and building molecules of the synapse are essential to almost...
Xiong, Wei, Farukhi, Yousaf Z, Tian, Yanli, DiSilvestre, Deborah, Li, Ronald A, Tomaselli, Gordon F
The molecular mechanisms underlying slow inactivation in sodium channels are elusive. Our results suggest that EEDD, a highly conserved ring of charge in the external vestibule of mammalian...
Xiong, Wei, Li, Ronald A., Tian, Yanli, Tomaselli, Gordon F.
In contrast to fast inactivation, the molecular basis of sodium (Na) channel slow inactivation is poorly understood. It has been suggested that structural rearrangements in the outer pore mediate...
Asset Float and Speculative Bubbles
HARRISON HONG, JOSÉ SCHEINKMAN, WEI XIONG
We model the relationship between asset float (tradeable shares) and speculative bubbles. Investors with heterogeneous beliefs and short-sales constraints trade a stock with limited float because of...
Executive Compensation and Short-Termist Behaviour in Speculative Markets
PATRICK BOLTON, JOSÉ SCHEINKMAN, WEI XIONG
We present a multiperiod agency model of stock-based executive compensation in a speculative stock market, where investors have heterogeneous beliefs and stock prices may deviate from underlying...
We provide an analytical and flexible framework to evaluate incentive options. Our model not only considers vesting periods and trading and hedging restrictions on the holders, but also specifically...
Colla, Simona, Zhan, Fenghuang, Xiong, Wei, Wu, Xiaosong, Xu, Hongwei, Stephens, Owen, ...
Multiple myeloma (MM) plasma cells, but not those from healthy donors and patients with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance or other plasma cell dyscrasias involving the bone marrow,...
Hou, Kewei, Peng, Lin, Xiong, Wei
Motivated by the recent debate on return R2 as an information-efficiency measure, this paper proposes and examines a new hypothesis that R2 is related to investors’ biases in processing...
Xiong, Wei, Hupert, Nathaniel, Hollingsworth, Eric B, O'Brien, Megan E, Fast, Jessica, Rodriguez, William R
Hao, Huang, Nancai, Yu, Lei, Fu, Xiong, Wei, Wen, Su, Guofu, Huang, ...
The c-Myc and human telomerase reverse transcriptase gene (hTERT) gene are frequently deregulated and overexpressed in malignancy. hTERT activity is induced by c-Myc and strategies designed to...
Advisors and asset prices: A model of the origins of bubbles
Hong, Harrison, Scheinkman, José, Xiong, Wei
We develop a model of asset price bubbles based on the communication process between advisors and investors. Advisors are well-intentioned and want to maximize the welfare of their advisees (like a...
Executive Compensation and Short-termist Behavior in Speculative Markets
Patrick Bolton, Jose Scheinkman, Wei Xiong
We present a multiperiod agency model of stock based executive compensation in a speculative stock market, where investors are overconfident and stock prices may deviate from underlying fundamentals...
What Drives the Disposition Effect? An Analysis of a Long-Standing Preference-Based Explanation
One of the most striking portfolio puzzles is the %u201Cdisposition effect%u201D: the tendency of individuals to sell stocks in their portfolios that have risen in value since purchase, rather than...
Heterogeneous Expectations and Bond Markets
This paper presents a dynamic equilibrium model of bond markets, in which two groups of agents hold heterogeneous expectations about future economic conditions. Our model shows that heterogeneous...
Advisors and Asset Prices: A Model of the Origins of Bubbles
Harrison Hong, Jose A. Scheinkman, Wei Xiong
We develop a model of asset price bubbles based on the communication process between advisors and investors. Advisors are well-intentioned and want to maximize the welfare of their advisees (like a...
Feng, Lu, Liu, Bin, Liu, Yanqun, Ratiner, Yuli A., Hu, Bo, Li, Dan, ...
The occurrence of unilateral flagellar phase variation was previously demonstrated in Escherichia coli strains carrying the non-fliC flagellin-specifying locus flk. In this study, we investigated the...
Nicholas C. Barberis, Wei Xiong
We study the possibility that, aside from standard sources of utility, investors also derive utility from realizing gains and losses on assets that they own. We propose a tractable model of this...
DTNBP1, a schizophrenia susceptibility gene, affects kinetics of transmitter release
Chen, Xiao-Wei, Feng, Ya-Qin, Hao, Chan-Juan, Guo, Xiao-Li, He, Xin, Zhou, Zhi-Yong, ...
Schizophrenia is one of the most debilitating neuropsychiatric disorders, affecting 0.5–1.0% of the population worldwide. Its pathology, attributed to defects in synaptic transmission, remains...
Multi-market Delegated Asset Management
This paper studies optimal contracting in delegated asset management when a fund manager can exert unobservable effort and take unobservable investment positions in multiple markets. A key insight is...
Investor Attention and Time-varying Comovements
Lin Peng, Wei Xiong, Tim Bollerslev
"This paper analyses the effect of an increase in market-wide uncertainty on information flow and asset price comovements. We use the daily realised volatility of the 30-year treasury bond futures to...
What Drives the Disposition Effect? An Analysis of a Long-Standing Preference-Based Explanation
We investigate whether prospect theory preferences can predict a disposition effect. We consider two implementations of prospect theory: in one case, preferences are defined over "annual" gains and...
Hao, Huang, Nancai, Yu, Lei, Fu, Xiong, Wei, Wen, Su, Guofu, Huang, ...
Spitzer, James D., Hupert, Nathaniel, Duckart, Jonathan, Xiong, Wei
Community-based mass prophylaxis is a core public health operational competency, but staffing needs may overwhelm the local trained health workforce. Just-in-time (JIT) training of emergency staff...
Schwander, Martin, Xiong, Wei, Tokita, Joshua, Lelli, Andrea, Elledge, Heather M., Kazmierczak, Piotr, ...
Deafness is the most common form of sensory impairment in humans and is frequently caused by single gene mutations. Interestingly, different mutations in a gene can cause syndromic and nonsyndromic...
Xiong, Wei, Wu, Xiaosong, Starnes, Sarah, Johnson, Sarah K., Haessler, Jeff, Wang, Siqing, ...
TP53 is a tumor suppressor gene that functions as transcriptional regulator influencing cellular responses to DNA damage. Here we explored the clinical and transcriptional effects of TP53 expression...
In 2005-08, over a dozen put warrants traded in China went so deep out of the money that they were certain to expire worthless. Nonetheless, each warrant was traded nearly three times each day at...
We develop a dynamic model of debt runs on a firm, which invests in an illiquid asset by rolling over staggered short-term debt contracts. We derive a unique threshold equilibrium, in which creditors...