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Weike Xu is a Clinical Associate Professor of Finance at Clemson University. He earned his Ph.D. in Finance from Rutgers University. Dr. Xu has published in 12 academic journals, including the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Financial Management, and the Journal of Empirical Finance, among others. His work has been cited over 450 times on Google Scholar. His research has been accepted for presentation at prestigious conferences such as the American Finance Association Annual Meeting, the Society for Financial Studies Finance Cavalcade North America, the China International Conference in Finance, the Annual Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting, and the CUHK-RAPS Conference on Asset Pricing and Investment. Dr. Xu’s work has been selected for the Eastern Finance Association Outstanding Paper Award in Special Topics, and has made the semi-final lists for the Financial Management Association Best Paper Award in Investment, as well as the Best Paper Award in Options & Derivatives.

Research Interests

• Empirical Asset Pricing, Macro-Finance, Empirical Corporate Finance, Short Selling, Credit Default Swap, Machine Learning

Research Publications

• 1. “Economic Policy Uncertainty, CDS Spreads, and CDS Liquidity Provision” (with Xinjie Wang and Zhaodong Zhong), Journal of Futures Markets, April 2019, Volume 39, 461-480.
• 2. “Economic Policy Uncertainty and Momentum” (with Ming Gu, Minxing Sun and Yangru Wu), Financial Management, Spring 2021, Volume 50, 237-259.
• 3. “The COVID-19 Pandemic and Sovereign Credit Risk” (with Wei-Fong Pan, Xinjie Wang and Ge Wu), China Finance Review International, 2021, Volume 11, 287-301.
• 4. “Changes in Ownership Breadth and Capital Market Anomalies” (with Yangru Wu), Journal of Portfolio Management, 2022, Volume 48, 185-198.
• 5. "The Causal Relationship between Social Media Sentiment and Stock Return: Experimental Evidence from an Online Message Forum" (with Xinjie Wang, Zhiqiang Xiang, and Peixuan Yuan), Economics Letters, Volume 216, July 2022, 110598.
• 6. “Does Venture-Backed Innovation Support Carbon Neutrality?” (with Donghui Li, Yingdong Liu, Minxing Sun and Xinjie Wang), China Finance Review International, 2024, 14, 191-200.
• 7. "The Effect of Economic and Political Uncertainty on Sovereign CDS Spreads” (with Wei-Fong Pan, Xinjie Wang, Yaqin Xiao and Jinfan Zhang), International Review of Economics and Finance, 2024, 89, 143-155.
• 8. “Short Selling and Readability in Financial Disclosures: Evidence from a Natural Experiment” (with Minxing Sun), The Financial Review, 2024, 59, 265-292.
• 9. "Market Volatility and the Trend Factor" (with Ming Gu, Minxing Sun, and Zhitao Xiong), Finance Research Letters, Volume 65, July 2024, 105595.
• 10. “Mispricing and Anomalies: An Exogenous Shock to Short Selling from JGTRRA” (with Yufeng Han, Yueliang Lu, and Guofu Zhou), Journal of Empirical Finance, Volume 78, September 2024, 101537.
• 11. “Geopolitical Risk and Investment” (with Xinjie Wang and Yangru Wu), Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Volume 68, December 2024, 2023-2059.

Links

• SSRN Author Page
• Google Scholar