熊伟，世界计量经济学会会士，香港中文大学（深圳）经管学院学术院长，深圳高等金融研究院首任院长，美国普林斯顿大学金融学讲座教授及经济学教授，美国国家经济研究署研究员，2016-2022年出任美国金融学会旗帜期刊《Journal of Finance》联合主编。

熊伟于2001年获得杜克大学金融学博士学位，在此之前，他获得中国科学技术大学物理学学士（少年班）和美国哥伦比亚大学物理学硕士学位。2000年起任教于普林斯顿大学经济系，2007年任经济学正教授，2014年任金融学讲席教授。2005年任美国国家经济研究署（NBER）兼职研究员。2012年任香港金管局研究所海外顾问。

他现任美国普林斯顿大学金融学讲座教授及经济学教授，美国国家经济研究署研究员。

熊伟是全世界金融界中最具影响力的研究学者之一，在国际学术圈及政府决策层中都发挥过重要影响力。他在世界顶尖经济及金融杂志发表过四十余篇关于各类研究主题的论文，例如投机泡沫、金融危机、行为金融学、大宗商品金融化、中国金融市场等。他在金融泡沫方面的研究曾被美国主流媒体例如《华尔街日报》专题报道。

熊伟曾获多项荣誉，包括美国金融学会2012年度史密斯·伯林顿最佳论文奖、美国西部金融学会2013年度纳斯达克集团最佳论文奖、中国2015年首届孙冶方金融创新奖、2018年中国经济学奖、2023年当选世界计量经济学会会士。2009-2011年任美国管理学学术期刊《管理科学》（Management Science）金融主编。2016年出任美国金融学会旗帜期刊《Journal of Finance》联合主编。

1. “Convergence Trading with Wealth Effects: An Amplification Mechanism in Financial Markets” Journal of Financial Economics, 2001, Vol. 62, pp. 247-292.

2. “Contagion as a Wealth Effect” (with Albert Kyle) Journal of Finance, 2001, Vol. 56, pp. 1401-1440. Roger Murray Prize in 2001 Q-group meetings.

3. “Overconfidence and Speculative Bubbles” (with Jose Scheinkman) Journal of Political Economy, 2003, Vol. 111, pp. 1183-1219. Reprinted in New Perspectives on Asset Price Bubbles, edited by Douglas D. Evanoff, George G. Kaufman and A. G. Malliaris, 2012, Oxford University Press.

4. “Asset Float and Speculative Bubbles” (with Harrison Hong and Jose Scheinkman) Journal of Finance, 2006, Vol. 61, pp. 1073-1117. Final list of the Smith Breeden Best Paper Award

5. “Investor Attention, Overconfidence and Category Learning” (with Lin Peng) Journal of Financial Economics, 2006, Vol. 80, pp. 563-602.

6. “Executive Compensation and Short-termist Behavior in Speculative Markets” (with Patrick Bolton and Jose Scheinkman), Review of Economic Studies, 2006, Vol. 73, pp. 577-610.

7. “Advisors and Asset Prices: A Model of the Origins of Bubbles” (with Harrison Hong and Jose Scheinkman), Journal of Financial Economics, 2008, Vol. 89, 268-287.

8. “What Drives the Disposition and Momentum Effects? An Analysis of a Recent Preference-Based Explanation” (with Nicholas Barberis), Journal of Finance, 2009, Vol. 64, 751-784.

9. “Heterogeneous Expectations and Bond Markets” (with Hongjun Yan), Review of Financial Studies, 2010, Vol. 23, 1433-1466.

10. “The Chinese Warrants Bubble” (with Jialin Yu), American Economic Review, 2011, Vol. 101, 2723-2753.

11. “Realization Utility” (with Nicholas Barberis), Journal of Financial Economics, 2012, Vol. 104, 251-271.

12. “Rollover Risk and Credit Risk” (with Zhiguo He), Journal of Finance, 2012, Vol. 67, 391-429 (lead article). 2012 Smith Breeden Prize (first prize).

13. “Dynamic Debt Runs” (with Zhiguo He), Review of Financial Studies, 2012, Vol. 25, 1799-1843.

14. “Index Investment and Financialization of Commodities” (with Ke Tang), Financial Analysts Journal, 2012, Vol. 68, 54-74.

15. “Delegated Asset Management, Investment Mandates, and Capital Immobility” (with Zhiguo He), Journal of Financial Economics, 2013, Vol 107, 239-258 (lead article).

16. “Wall Street and the Housing Bubble” (with Ing-haw Cheng and Sahil Raina) American Economic Review 104, 2014, 2797-2829.

17. “Why Do Hedgers Trade So Much?” (with Ing-haw Cheng), Journal of Legal Studies 43, 2014, S183-207.

18. “A Welfare Criterion for Models with Distorted Beliefs” (with Markus Brunnermeier and Alp Simsek), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 129 (4), 2014, 1711-1752.

19. “Informational Frictions and Commodity Markets” (with Michael Sockin), Journal of Finance, 2015.

20. “Credit Expansion and Neglected Crash Risk” (with Matthew Baron), Quarterly Journal of Economics, forthcoming.

2018年7月12日，北京当代经济学基金会公告称，深圳高等金融研究院院长熊伟获得2018中国经济学奖。