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Current Issues in Urban and Real Estate Economics, September 19, 2003
Jan K. Brueckner is the IBE Distinguished Professor of Economics and a member of the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His past positions include Visiting Professor at the University of California at San Diego and University of California at Santa Barbara and Visiting Scholar at Universite du Maine (France), Public Policy Institute of California, Government Institute for Economic Research (Helsinki, Finland), Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chausees (Paris), University of Bonn, City University of Hong Kong, and University of British Columbia. He received an A.B. from UC Berkeley in 1972 and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1976.
Professor Brueckner has published over eighty scholarly papers in the areas of urban economics, public economics, housing finance, and the economics of the airline industry in peer reviewed journals, including the Journal of Regional Science, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Rand Journal of Economics, Journal of Law and Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, International Economic Review and American Economic Review, and others.
Professor Brueckner is the editor of the Journal of Urban Economics. He is also a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Real Estate Economics, Journal of Housing Economics, and the Journal of Public Economic Theory.
Peter F. Colwell is Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also an Honorary Professor at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland and an Emeritus faculty member of the Weimer School. Professor Colwell has published extensively on a wide range of urban and real estate topics. He has published over fifty articles in peer reviewed academic journals, over seventy five non-technical articles, and over 30 articles and book chapters aimed at a professional audience. He serves on the editorial boards of three academic and one professional journal. Peter Colwell is a former President of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association. Currently, he does consulting in the area of property valuation and continues to work on his academic research agenda.
Jonathan Dombrow (University of Illinois, Chicago)
Jonathan Dombrow is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago. He received a B.S. from Purdue University Calumet, an MS in Finance from Louisiana State University, and a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Connecticut.
Professor Dombrow’s research interests include housing markets, the brokerage market, and real estate development. His work has been published in the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Real Estate Economics, Journal of Real Estate Literature, Appraisal Journal, Journal of Housing Economics, Journal of Regional Science, and Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting.
Alan Gelfand (Duke University)
Alan Gelfand is the J. B. Duke Professor of Statistics and Decision Sciences in the Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences at Duke University.
His honors and distinctions include being a fellow of the American Statistical Association and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He is also an elected member of the International Statistical Institute and received the Mosteller Statistician of the Year award in 2001. Last year he was recognized by Science Watch as the tenth most cited researcher in the mathematical sciences in the world for the decade 1991-2001.
He has held visiting research professorships at Stanford University, George Washington University, Sydney University, The University of New South Wales, Nottingham University, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Harvard University, The University of Washington and Bocconi University in Milan. He has served on the editorial boards of several journals including the Journal of the American Statistical Association and The American Statistician.
His current research interests include the analysis of spatial and spatiotemporal data, modern nonparametric methods, model comparison and computation, all within a Bayesian framework. He is the publisher of more than 100 articles since 1990 and of a forthcoming book entitled “Hierarchical Modeling for the Analysis of Spatial Data”.
He received his M.S. And Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University.
Allen C. Goodman is Professor of Economics at Wayne State University. He received an A.B. in Economics from The University of Michigan in 1969 and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1976. He served on the faculties at Lawrence University and Johns Hopkins University prior to moving to Wayne State University in 1986. He also worked as a staff economist at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development from 1985 to 1986.
Professor Goodman is widely published in urban and real estate economics on the topics of hedonic housing price models, housing demand, and housing market discrimination. His recent work with Thomas G. Thibodeau focuses on age-related heteroskedasticity, and on the appropriate definition of submarkets for hedonic and repeat sales estimates. His recent published empirical research studies multiple-period consumer optimization in housing demand. He is currently investigating determinants of housing supply across metropolitan areas.
Donald R. Haurin received his B.S. from MIT in 1971 and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1978. He is currently professor of Economics, Finance, and Public Policy at The Ohio State University. He is also serving as Associate Dean in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Professor Haurin served as editor of the Journal of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (now Real Estate Economics) from 1987 through 1991. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Real Estate Economics, Journal of Housing Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, and Journal of Housing Research. Other current and past appointments include being named a Fellow at the Homer Hoyt Institute for Advanced Studies and a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University.
Donald Haurin’s research interests focus on issues in housing and real estate economics, urban economics, public finance, and economic demography. These interests include the study of homeownership, housing demand, real estate price indices, property taxation, household formation, migration, and other demographic topics. His current research on racial and ethnic gaps in homeownership rates is funded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. He has published over 45 articles in peer reviewed journals including: Real Estate Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Housing Economics, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Journal of Housing Research, Property Tax Journal, Journal of Regional Science, Economic Development Quarterly, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Housing Finance Review, Public Choice, Social Science Quarterly, Population Economics, Journal of Applied Education, and Social Science Research.
Henry J. Munneke earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is currently an Associate Professor of Real Estate at the University of Georgia. His research focuses on topics in urban land economics with a particular interest in the determinants of urban land values, land use controls, and the redevelopment of urban areas. He has also authored several studies examining the issue of sample selection bias associated with real estate price indices. His research has been published in a variety of journals, including the Journal of Urban Economics, Real Estate Economics, and Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics. Dr. Munneke attended the 1999 session of the Weimer School as a Post-Doctoral Award Recipient. He currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics. He is an active participant in the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association and the American Real Estate Society.
Henry O. Pollakowski is currently in the Centre for Real Estate at MIT. Dr. Pollakowski is the editor of the Journal of Housing Economics.
C. F. Sirmans is the Director of the Center for Real Estate and Urban Economic Studies and the William N. Kinnard, Jr. Professor of Real Estate and Finance in the School of Business at the University of Connecticut.
Professor Sirmans currently serves as editor of The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics and is past editor of the Journal of Real Estate Literature and Real Estate Economics. He has published numerous articles in academic journals, including, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Legal Studies, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, National Tax Journal, Land Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Regional Science, Journal of Urban Economics, Real Estate Economics, Journal of Real Estate Research and Regional Science and Urban Economics. He has also published extensively in professional journals, such as, Real Estate Finance, The Appraisal Journal, Property Tax Journal, Real Estate Issues, Real Estate Review, and The Journal of Portfolio Management. He is the author of several textbooks, including Fundamentals of Real Estate Investment (3rd edition, Prentice-Hall), Real Estate Investment Decision Making (Prentice-Hall), Tax Planning for Real Estate Investors (3rd edition, Prentice-Hall), and Real Estate Finance (2nd edition, McGraw-Hill). Professor Sirmans has received numerous teaching awards, and is a fellow of the Homer Hoyt Institute and a past fellow of the Urban Land Institute.
Professor Sirmans has held visiting professorships at the National University of Singapore, University of Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong, and the Swedish School of Business and Economics (Hankan). Professor Sirmans has lectured extensively in continuing education and professional development programs for such organizations as The Mortgage Bankers Association of America, The International Council of Shopping Centers, The Appraisal Institute, The Royal Institution of Chartered Valuers and The International Association of Assessing Officers. He has served as a consultant to numerous U. S. federal and state government agencies, professional organizations, and private business firms, including the Real Estate Research Institute, Pension Real Estate Association, Federal National Mortgage Association, and National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries. Dr. Sirmans has held teaching positions at Louisiana State University, University of Georgia and the University of Illinois. He received his Ph.D. in Real Estate and Urban Development from the University of Georgia in 1976.
Tom Thibodeau is a Professor of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics in the E. L. Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University. His previous positions include Visiting Professor of Real Estate at the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, a research position at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. and serving as a staff consultant for President Reagan's Commission on Housing. He received a Ph.D. degree in Economics and a M.S. degree in Statistics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1980.
Professor Thibodeau joined the SMU Real Estate faculty in 1983 and teaches courses in real estate, finance, and economics. He has also taught for the Southwestern Graduate School of Banking at SMU and teaches Income Property Analysis in the training program for the ARCHON Group. His primary areas of research focus on spatial and temporal house price indices, developing statistical procedures to mark residential property values to market, evaluating traditional economic housing market models explanatory power for house prices. His research papers have been published in peer reviewed journals including Real Estate Economics, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Land Economics, Journal of Housing Research, Journal of Real Estate Research, Housing Policy Debate, Real Estate Review, Real Estate Finance and the Property Tax Journal.
Tom Thibodeau was awarded the E. L. Cox School of Business Research Excellence Award, appointed as the Marilyn and Leo F. Corrigan, Jr. Research Professor, received an appointment to teach and conduct research under the Marilyn and Leo F. Corrigan, Jr. Endowment, and designated a Senior Research Fellow by the Cox School of Business. He has been a delegate with the Citizen Ambassador Program's Business and comparative Economics Delegation to Russia and the Ukraine. Professor Thibodeau has consulted for Fidelity National Information Solutions, International Data Management, Inc., Zurich Reinsurance, Fannie Mae, The Urban Institute, HUD and the Government Accounting Office.
Professor Thibodeau is co-editor of Real Estate Economics and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Journal of Real Estate Research and the Journal of Housing Research. He is a Past President of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association and is a Fellow of the Homer Hoyt Advanced Studies Institute.
Geoffrey K. Turnbull is currently Professor of Economics in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. His past positions include the C. J. Brown Distinguished Professor of Real Estate and the Gulf Coast Coca-Cola Bottling Company Professor at Louisiana State University, Visiting Professor at the Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration. and Visiting Scholar at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and University of Connecticut. Professor Turnbull has served as a consultant for the energy, public utilities, hospitality and real estate industries as well as for state and local governments. He received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Professor Turnbull’s current research interests in urban and real estate economics include housing markets, the real estate brokerage industry, urban development, and real estate taxation and regulation issues. He is widely published, with over 80 articles in peer reviewed journals, including the Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Regional Science, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Journal of Housing Economics, Real Estate Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Law and Economics, International Economic Review, and others.
Geoffrey K. Turnbull is currently on the editorial boards of the Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Real Estate Economics, and the Journal of Housing Economics.