Jianping Mei is a professor of finance at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business and director of CCFR Real Estate Research Program at Tsinghua University. His major areas of research include international asset pricing and real asset finance. He has published over 30 articles in American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Real Estate Economics, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, and other academic journals. He has received several "Best Research Paper Award" from various academic organizations. His research has been covered extensively by major news media in China, U.S., U.K., Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Japan, Canada, Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore.

Jianping has been a consultant and financial advisor to some of the largest financial institutions in the world, including Prudential Insurance of America, Fidelity Investment, UBS Warburg, Asia Development Bank, NCH capital, Koo’s Group, and W.P. Carey. He provides international asset allocation and real estate investment research to top decision makers and their clients. He is also an advisor to several major Chinese asset management companies as well as an advisor to the Yunan Investment Trust Company.

Jianping has been a faculty director of NYU’s numerous international residency programs. He was also an organizer for several investment conferences, including as Chairman for the Greater China Real Estate Investment session for the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association. He is also a faculty sponsor of US-China exchange program at the Stern Business School. The program has trained over 100 senior Chinese government officials and investment professionals.

Jianping is also a principal developer of the Mei Moses Fine Art Price Indices, which have been covered by New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Barron’s, Los Angels Times, Business Week, Time, Forbes, and other world news media. The indices have been adopted by several major US and overseas banks for private banking. Jianping has a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University and B.S. in Mathematics from Fudan University. He has taught at University of Chicago, Princeton University, Tsinghua University, University of Amsterdam, Bocconi University, and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

"Turning Over Turnover", (with M. Cremers), Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming, 2008

Working Paper

1. Speculative Trading and Stock Prices: An Analysis of Chinese A-B Share Premia (with José Scheinkman and Wei Xiong)

2. Behavior Based Manipulation (with Chunsheng Zhou)

3. Mandatory vs. contractual disclosure in securities markets:Evidence from the 1930s (with P. Mahoney)

Books and Monographs

1. From Wall Street to Great Wall, (with B Malkiel, P. Taylor, and R. Yang), Norton, 2007.

2. Global Bargain Hunting, (with B. Malkiel), Simon & Schuster, 1998, 1999. Also published by Penguin, 1999. An International Best Seller.

3. Principles of Real Estate Finance, jointly with H. Liao and A. Lee, Rentai Publishing Company, 1995, 570 pages, Third Edition (in Chinese)

4. New Methods for the Arbitrage Pricing Theory and the Present Value Model, World Scientific Publishing Ltd., 1994, 111 pages