Ginger Zhe Jin
Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics
University of Maryland, College Park
Ginger Zhe Jin is the Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, College Park, and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics.
Her research focuses on information asymmetry among economic agents and the design of disclosure and information systems to mitigate market failures. Her work examines consumer protection, industrial organization, and the economics of data and reputation systems.
Jin serves as managing editor of the International Journal of Industrial Organization, sits on the advisory council of the Journal of Industrial Economics, and is a board member of the Industrial Organization Society. She is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and co-founded Hazel Analytics, a company that uses open government data to improve public-health information.
She has held several public- and private-sector appointments. She served as an Amazon Scholar and senior principal economist at Amazon.com. Earlier, she took leave from academia to serve at the Federal Trade Commission, first as a visiting staff economist and then as director of the Bureau of Economics.
At the University of Maryland, she has served as professor, associate professor, and assistant professor of economics. She has also held a visiting professorship at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management.
Jin has received a best-paper award at the Workshop on Health IT and Economics and multiple graduate teaching awards from the University of Maryland.
She earned a Ph.D. in economics and a master’s in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, as well as a master’s from the Graduate School of the People’s Bank of China. She also holds a bachelor’s from the University of Science and Technology of China.
