Dr. Gan Jie is a Professor of Finance at CKGSB. Before joining CKGSB in 2010, Dr. Gan served on the faculties of Columbia Business School and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She also worked as a research fellow at MIT. She received her Ph.D. from MIT in 1999.

• 2011 Barclays Global Investors - Michael Brennan Award from Review of Financial Studies.
• Nominated for the Michael Gale Medal for Distinguished Teaching at HKUST in 2005, the highest honor awarded to a single faculty in the university.
• Franklin Prize for Undergraduate Teaching at HKUST (MBA teaching 2004 and 2008); nominated for undergraduate teaching 2003 and 2004.
• Hong Kong RGC Competitive Earmark Research Grant, 2003 (HK$373,000), 2004 (HK$551,000), 2006 (HK$666,000), 2008 (HK$784,000).
• Faculty Research Award, Columbia University Center for Japanese Economy and Business, 2001-2002.
• Graduate Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993-1996, 1998-1999.
• "Best Graduate of the Year" (equivalent to summa cum laude), Nanjing University, 1991.

• Transparency, Price Informativeness, and Stock Return Synchronicity: Theory and Evidence (with Suditpo Dasgupta and Ning Gao), Journal of Quantitative and Financial Analysis, forthcoming.
• Housing Wealth and Consumer Growth: Evidence from a Large Panel of Households, Review of Financial Studies 23, 2010, pp. 2229-2267 (lead article).
• A Nationwide Survey of Privatized Firms in China (with Guo and Xu), Seoul Journal of Economics 21, 2008, pp. 311-331.
• Monopoly and Information Advantage in the Market for Residential Mortgages (with Timothy Riddiough), Review of Financial Studies 21, 2008, pp. 2677-2703.
• The Real Effects of Asset Market Bubbles: Loan- and Firm-Level Evidence of a Lending Channel, Review of Financial Studies 20, 2007, pp. 1941-1973.
• Collateral, Debt Capacity, and Corporate Investment: Evidence from a Natural Experiment, Journal of Financial Economics 85, 2007, pp. 709-734
• Banking Market Structure and Financial Stability: Evidence from the Texas Real Estate Crisis in the 1980s, Journal of Financial Economics 73, 2004, pp. 567-601.

• "Global Banking Regulation & Supervision: What Are the Issues and What Are the Practices?" (James Barth, Jie Gan, and Dan Nolle), in Focus on Financial Institutions and Services, Nova Science Publisher, 2004.
• "Privatization in China: Experiences and Lessons," in China's Emerging Financial Markets: Challenges and Opportunities (J. Barth, J. Tatom, and G. Yago, 2008 eds.), The Milken Institute Series on Financial Innovation and Economic Growth.

• Property Market Overvaluation, Toeholds, and the Winners' Curse: Evidence from Hong Kong Land Auctions (with Yuk Ying Chang and Sudipto Dasgupta).
• What Do Capital Requirements Do When They Are Not Binding?
• Political Constraints, Organizational Forms, and Privatization Performance:
  Evidence from China (Jianping Deng, Jie Gan, and Jia He), formally titled "Privatization, Large Shareholders' Incentives to Expropriate, and Firm Performance." Top 20 downloads in SSRN Corporate Finance, Management, and AFA Conference.
• What Makes Privatization Work? Evidence from a Large-Scale Nationwide Survey from China (with Yan Guo and Chenggang Xu).
• Housing Wealth and Consumption Growth: Evidence from a Large Panel of Households