CRE Research Seminar
CRE launched the “CRE Research Seminar” in Fall 2020. The intent is to feature distinguished scholars in the real estate finance field and provide a rigorous discussion platform for basic research. Each seminar will feature only one presenter’s current work for one hour, including Q&As.
This Spring 2023, seminars are held every other Tuesday from 12:00 – 1:00 pm (ET) in-person or via Zoom as indicated. If you’d like to receive announcements via the seminar mailing list, please sign up.
Spring 2023
- February 7: Dr. Sisi Zhang, Visiting Faculty, MIT Center for Real Estate (CRE) and Associate Professor & Associate Dean, Institute for Economic and Social Research, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
“Tax Me if You Can: Tax Evasion on Chinese Housing Market”
(In-Person and Zoom) - February 21: Dr. Jaehee Song, Assistant Professor of Finance & Real Estate (Leeds School of Business), University of Colorado-Boulder
“The Effects of Residential Zoning in U.S. Housing Markets”
(Zoom) - March 7: Dr. Edward Glaeser, Department Chair, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, Harvard University
“Infrastructure Inequality”
(In-Person and Zoom) - March 21: Dr. Sara Bagagli, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Economics, Harvard University
“The (Express) Way to Segregation: Evidence from Chicago”
(Zoom) - April 4: Dr. Adam Storeygard, Associate Professor of Economics, Tufts University
“The Fast, the Slow, and the Congested: Urban Transportation in Rich and Poor Countries”
(In-Person and Zoom) - April 18: Dr. Jeffrey Zabel, Professor of Economics, Director of Data Analytics, Tufts University
“The Geography of Worker Adaptation to Unanticipated Job Losses”
(In-Person and Zoom) - May 16: Dr. Nico Pestel, Associate Professor, Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA), School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University
“Air Pollution and the Housing Market: Evidence from Germany’s Low Emission Zones”
(Zoom)
Past Events
- September 13: Dr. Xiaolun Yu, Henley Business School, University of Reading
“Low-rise Buildings in Big Cities: Theory and Evidence from China” - September 27: Dr. Vaidehi Tandel, University of Manchester, UK
“Do mandatory disclosures squeeze the lemons?” - October 11: Dr. Gilles Duranton, Wharton Real Estate Department, University of Pennsylvania
“Measuring land use changes by (machine) learning from historical maps” (and) “The emergence, growth, and stagnation of cities: France c. 1760-2020” - October 18: Dr. Dragana Cvijanovic, Cornell University
“Opioid Crisis and Real Estate Prices” - October 25: Dr. Daniel McMillen, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Assessment Persistence” - November 8: Dr. Tobias Seidel, Mercator School of Management, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
“Optimal Minimum Wages in Spatial Economies” - November 22: Dr. Vinicios Sant’Anna, MIT Center for Real Estate (CRE)
“Send Them Back? The Real Estate Consequences of Repatriations” - December 6: Dr. Rachel Meltzer, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
“Are Local Retail Services an Amenity or a Nuisance?”
March 1: Matthew Kahn, University of Southern California
“The Challenges and the Opportunities for the Real Estate Sector Caused by Rising Climate Change Risk”
March 15: Patrick Baylis, Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia (UBC)
“Mandated Vs. Voluntary Adaption to Natural Disasters: The Case of U.S. Wildfires”
March 29: Jan Brueckner, University of California, Irvine
“A New Spatial Hedonic Equilibrium in the Emerging Work-from-Home Economy?”
April 12: Ishita Sen, Harvard Business School
“Pricing of Climate Risk Insurance: Regulatory Frictions and Cross-Subsidies”
April 26: Rebecca Diamond, Stanford Graduate School of Business
“Where is Standard of Living the Highest? Local Prices and the Geography of Consumption”
May 10: Tingyu Zhou, Florida State University
“Loss Aversion and Focal Point Bias: Empirical Evidence”
May 24: Eva Steiner, Penn State Smeal College of Business
“Did PPP Loans Distort Business Competition? Evidence from the Hotel Industry”
September 9: Brent Ambros, Pennsylvania State University
“Information in Financial Contracts: Evidence from CMBS Pooling and Servicing Agreements”
September 23: Juan Palacios, MIT CRE
“Fear and Behavior: Measuring Expressed Fear and Its Implications for Urban Mobility in Times of COVID-19”
October 21: Jessie Handbury, Wharton Real Estate Department
“School Food Policy Affects Everyone: Retail Responses to the National School Lunch Program”
November 4: Alex van de Minne, Connecticut University
“Does Climate Change Affect Investment Performance? Evidence From Commercial Real Estate”
November 18: Dragana Cvijanovic, Cornell University
“Opioid Crisis and Real Estate Prices”
December 2: Lu Han, University of Toronto
“To Own or to Rent? The Effects of Transaction Taxes on Housing Markets”
February 23: Matthijs Korevaar, Erasmus University
“Baby Booms and Asset Booms: Demographic Change and the Housing Market”
March 9: Bill Wheaton, MIT CRE
“The (R)evolution in retailing: Impacts on Real Estate”
March 23: Olivier Schöni, Laval University
“The Geography of Housing Subsidies”
April 6: Daniel Greenwald, MIT Sloan
“Do Credit Conditions Move House Prices?”
April 20: Christian Hilber, London School of Economics
“Why Have House Prices Risen So Much More Than Rents in Superstar Cities?”
May 4: Antoinette Schoar, MIT Sloan
“Perception of House Price Risk and Homeownership”
May 18: Andra Ghent, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
“The Work-from-Home Technology Boon and its Consequences”
June 1: Andrea Chegut, MIT REI Lab
“The Value of Street Level Greenness: The Financial Impact of Street Level Greenness on New York Commercial Real Estate”
November 10th: Chris Palmer, MIT Sloan
“Are Stated Expectations Actual Beliefs? New Evidence for the Beliefs Channel of Investment Demand”
November 24th: Alex van de Minne, University of Connecticut
“The Billion-Dollar Club”
December 1st: Walter Torous, MIT CRE
“Pricing Infrequently Traded Assets”
