Ying Gan

I am a tenured Associate Professor of Financial Accounting at Erasmus University Rotterdam. I received my PhD in Finance at WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany. I received additional training from HEC Paris and from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Education

• October 2011 – August 2014
  WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany
  Ph.D. in Finance, graduation with summa cum laude
  Dissertation: Essays on CEO Succession and Clawback Provisions
  Ph.D. supervisor: Prof. B. Burcin Yurtoglu

• January 2014 – July 2014
  HEC Paris, France
  Visiting Ph.D. student at the Department of Accounting and Management Control

• January 2012 – June 2012
  University of Chicago Booth School of Business, USA
  Ph.D. courses attended: Theory of Financial Decisions II and III (Prof. Diamond, Prof. Rajan, Prof. Sufi, Prof. Zingales), Applied Econometrics (Prof. Hansen)
  MBA course attended: Financial Accounting (Prof. Christensen)

• April 2007 – September 2011
  Trier University, Germany
  Graduation in Economics (M.Sc. equivalent)

Research Interests

• Financial reporting quality, financial regulation, CEO compensation, Mergers and acquisitions

Teaching

• 2015 – present
  

Seminar Data Analytics (M.Sc.), Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Seminar Financial Accounting Research (M.Sc.), Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Management Accounting (B.Sc.), Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Finance and Accounting (M.Sc.), WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar, Germany
Supervision of more than 100 master thesis students

• 2011 – 2017
  

The International Financial Crisis at ESSCA Angers, France (M.Sc.)

Awards

• 2019 Top Talent Researcher Award, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands