Xing Huang

Xing Huang is currently an assistant professor of Finance at the Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis. She received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 2013. Prior to Wash U, she served on the faculty of the Broad College of Business at Michigan State University.

Xing’s research focuses on behavioral finance, asset pricing and household finance. She is interested in empirically characterizing how market participants behave, and identifying how these (non-standard) behaviors can improve our understanding on the pricing of the financial market.

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Assistant Professor, Olin Business School Washington University

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Consumer Behavior in Financial Markets 2020 “Leveraging Overconfidence” Brad M. Barber (Graduate School of Management UC) Davis Xing Huang. Discussant: Yigitcan Karabulut

Psychologists and economists have studied overconfidence for many years. It is perhaps the most well-established bias towards which human judgement is vulnerable. Overconfidence can influence behavioural choices in profound ways. Theoretically, researchers know that overconfident investors' are likely to trade too aggressively, diversify less and perform worse. Listen to speaker Xing Huang present the main findings from their paper and how overconfidence relates to margin investors, followed by discussant Yigitcan Karabulut.

Paper

“Leveraging Overconfidence”