Professor Gan Jie is an associate professor with tenure at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and was previously an assistant professor of finance and economics at Columbia Business School. Prior to this he was a research fellow at M.I.T. having received his Ph.D. there in 1999.

Gan Jie was nominated for the Michael Gale Medal for Distinguished Teaching 2005, the highest honor awarded to a single faculty at HKUST; the Franklin Prize for MBA Teaching Excellence at HKUST; and a Faculty Research Award, Columbia University Center for Japanese Economy and Business, 2001-2002.

• 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.
• Collateral, Debt Capacity, and Corporate Investment: Evidence from a Natural Experiment, Journal of Financial Economics 85, 2007, pp. 709-734
• 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.
• Monopoly and Information Advantage in the Market for Residential Mortgages (with Timothy Riddiough), Review of Financial Studies 21, 2008, pp. 2677-2703.
• Transparency, Price Informativeness, and Stock Return Synchronicity: Theory and Evidence (with Suditpo Dasgupta and Ning Gao), Journal of Quantitative and Financial Analysis forthcoming.
• A Nationwide Survey of Privatized Firms in China (with Guo and Xu), Seoul Journal of Economics 21, 2008, pp. 311-331.

• "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.

• Housing Wealth and Consumption Growth: Evidence from a Large Panel of Households.
• Property Market Overvaluation, Toeholds, and the Winners' Curse: Evidence from Hong Kong Land Auctions (with Yuk Ying Chang and Sudipto Dasgupta).
• The Dark Side of Concentrated Ownership in Privatization: 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 Do Capital Requirements Do When They Are Not Binding?