Dr. Jian ZHANG
Finance

Assistant Professor
3917 4176
zhangj1@hku.hk
KK 819
CV


Academic & Professional Qualification
Ph.D., National University of Singapore
B.S., University of Science and Technology of China
Biography
Dr. Zhang joined The University of Hong Kong (HKU) as an assistant professor at the HKU Business School in 2020. Prior to that, he was an assistant professor of finance at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Research Interest
His areas of interest include Household Finance, Behavioral Finance, Financial Institutions, and Corporate Finance. His research has been published in major economics and finance journals, including Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Management Science, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Finance and Journal of Financial Intermediation.
Selected Publications
“Interest Rate Pass-Through and Consumption Response: The Deposit Channel” (with S. Agarwal, S. Chomsisengphet, and Y. Yildirim),?Review of Economics and Statistics, Forthcoming.
“Investing in Low-Trust Countries: On the Role of Social Trust in the Global Mutual Fund Industry” (with M. Massa, C. Wang and H. Zhang),?Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Forthcoming.
“Air Pollution, Behavioral Bias, and the Disposition Effect in China” (with J. Li, M. Massa and H. Zhang),?Journal of Financial Economics, 142(2), 2021, 641-673.
“Good Days, Bad Days: Stock Market Fluctuation and Taxi Tipping Decisions” (with W. Tan),?Management Science, 67(6), 2021, 3965-3984.
“Disguised Corruption: Evidence from Consumer Credit in China” (with S. Agarwal, W. Qian and A. Seru),?Journal of Financial Economics, 137(2), 2020, 430-450.
“Gender Gap in Personal Bankruptcy Risks: Empirical Evidence from Singapore” (with S. Agarwal, J. He and T. Sing),?Review of Finance, 22(2), 2018, 813-847.
“Gender Difference and Intra-Household Economic Power in Mortgage Signing Order” (with S. Agarwal, R. Green, E. Rosenblatt, and V. Yao),?Journal of Financial Intermediation, 36, 2018, 86-100.