IREBS Conference on Real Estate Economics and Finance 2009

Roland Füss (European Business School)
Roland Füss studied Business Administration at the University of Lörrach and Economics at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg. He then obtained his Ph.D. (Economics) from the Faculty of Economics and Behavioral Sciences at the Albert-Ludwids-University of Freiburg, followed by his Habilitation in 2007. Before joining the European Businees School, he held various positions as assistant professor and research assistant at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg. Since January 2008, he has held the head of chair of the Union Investment Chair Asset Management at the European Business School in Schloss Reichartshausen. His research is focused on applied econometrics, risk management, alternative investments, financial markets and the macroeconomy, and political economy of financial markets.

Martin Gervais (University of Southampton)
Assistant Professor Martin Gervais graduated from the Université Laval with a B.A. in Accounting and a Master of Business Administration and from the University of Western Ontario with a M.A. in Economics. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Western Ontario with the dissertation titled “Housing and Optimal Taxation in Life-Cycle Economies”. Before and during joining the University of Western Ontario in July 2002, he held positions at various institutions inter alia at the University of Southampton, the Queen's University, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. He has received research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for the projects “Theoretical and Empirical Aspects of Consumption Smoothing", “Risk Sharing: Theory and Evidence" and “The Role of Education Policy for the Accumulation of Human Capital in the Presence of Borrowing Constraints.

John Mc Breen (University of Lyon)
John Mc Breen studied physics in Queen's University of Belfast and ENS-Lyon before moving into the field of complex systems, studying simulation models of transport systems and housing markets. He currently works at both the Transport Economics Laboratory of University Lyon 2 and the Physics Department of ENS-Lyon and is a member of the Complex Systems Institute of Rhône-Alpes (IXXI).

Joseph Ooi (National University of Singapore)
Joseph Ooi studied at the Institute of Science and Technology at the University of Manchester and received his B.Sc. in Estate Management and his M.Sc. in Real Estate at the National University of Singapore. At the moment, he holds an associate professorship at the University of Singapore at the Department of Real Estate. Professor Ooi’s main research focuses on corporate finance, corporate real estate management, real estate cases, financial structure of property companies and international real estate investment.

Margarita Rubio (Bank of Spain)
Margarita Rubio obtained her PhD at Boston College in 2008 and has been working as a Research Economist at the Bank of Spain since then. Previous positions include summer internships at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and St. Louis, the Board of Governors and the Bundesbank. Her research focuses on DSGE models, housing markets and monetary policy.

Don E. Schlagenhauf (Florida State University)
Don E. Schlagenhauf studied Business Administration at the Marquette University and Economics at the University of Illinois, Urbana (Ph.D. and M.A.). Before joining the Florida State University, he held positions at various institutions such as the Arizona State University, the University of Chicago, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and the Chinese-European International Business School. Since January 1998, he has held the position as a professor of Economics at the Florida State University. Professor Schlagenhauf’s main research focuses on macroeconomic theory, applied economics and forecasting, international monetary theory and policy, computational economics.

Andrea Donato Tortora (Bocconi University, Milano)
Andrea Tortora is a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at Bocconi University, Milan. He holds a Master degree in Economics and Finance from the University of Naples. His primary research interests are Bayesian Econometrics and International Macro-Finance. Secondary research interests are Applied Econometrics and Empirical Finance. In particular, he investigates the extent of time variation in the relationships between economic and financial variables by means of Bayesian estimation methods and the benefits of Bayesian Model Averaging procedures in the presence of relevant model uncertainty (e.g., exchange rates). He has spent six months at the Manchester Business School as a Marie Curie Fellow for a project on the pricing determinants of REITs under the supervision of Prof. Guidolin.

Discussants

David Andolfatto (Simon Fraser University)
David Andolfatto received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Western Ontario in 1994. He was associate professor at the University of Waterloo before moving to Simon Fraser University in 2000. David is currently investigating whether financial fragility can be the product of an optimal banking structure. His past research has examined questions relating to the business cycle, contract design, unemployment insurance, monetary policy regimes, endogenous debt constraints, and technology diffusion.

Christian Bauer (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)
Christian Bauer obtained his Diploma in Economics at the University of Regensburg in 2005. Before moving for his postdoctoral lecture alification (Habilitation) to the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich in 2008, he studied (Ph.D.) within the Bavarian Graduate Program in Economics at the University of Regensburg. Christian Bauer’s main research focuses on endogenous fluctuations and growth, macroeconomics of labor market imperfections, and international economics and decisions under risk.

David Downs (Virginia Commonwealth University)
David H. Downs is the Alfred L. Blake Chair and Professor in the Department of Finance, Insurance and Real Estate at Virginia Commonwealth University. David Downs joined VCU in 2003 as the head of the real estate program, which includes the longstanding Virginia Real Estate Center. David Downs serves on the editorial boards for Real Estate Economics and the Journal of Real Estate Research. His research interests include institutional real estate investment, finance and information economics. His publications appear in Real Estate Economics, the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, the Journal of Real Estate Research, the Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management and the Journal of Risk and Insurance. David Downs has received several funding awards from the Real Estate Research Institute (RERI). He is a Fellow of the Weimer School of Advanced Studies in Real Estate and Land Economics at the Homer Hoyt Advanced Studies Institute. He serves on the Board of Directors for the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA). David Downs holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, an M.B.A. from George Washington University and a B.S. in Chemistry from James Madison University.

Eric Mayer (University of Würzburg)
Eric Mayer obtained his Diploma in Economics at the University of Trier in 1999. Subsequent, he did his Doctorandus in Applied Economics at the University of Antwerp in 2003. Until October 2006, he studied Economics (Ph.D.) at the University of Würzburg. Since October 2006, he has worked as an assistant professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Würzburg. Professor Mayer’s main research focuses on macroeconomics, time series econometrics, fiscal policy rules, monetary and fiscal policy in the Euro area and monetary transmission and bank behaviour.

Ted Temzelides (Rice University)
Ted Temzelides holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota. Before coming to Rice, Dr. Temzelides had taught at the University of Minnesota, the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa, the University of Pittsburgh, and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He has consulted for the Federal Reserve as well as the European Central Bank. His research concentrates on Macroeconomics, where he studies issues related to the role of financial institutions and that of R&D in renewable energy sources on economic growth. Dr. Temzelides?s research has received funding from the National Science Foundation and has been published in some of the leading academic economics journals, including Econometrica, The Journal of Political Economy, The American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, and The Journal of Monetary Economics. Dr. Temzelides regularly serves as a referee for academic journals and is on the Editorial Board of the Journal Economic Theory.

Martin Wersing (TU Berlin)
Martin Wersing studied Business Administration at the Freie Universität Berlin. Currently, he works as an assistant at the Chair of Econometrics and Business Statistics at the Technische Unversität Berlin. Martin Wersing’s main research focuses on real estate, urban economics, and applied microeconometrics.

Bing Zhu (European Business School)
Bing Zhu is the research assistant and PhD candidate at the Real Estate Management Institute of European Business School. She got her Bachelor and Master degree for Construction Management and real estate at Southeast University, China. Since 2008, she joined REMI institute and her research interests focus on spatial econometrics.

Christine Zulehner (WIFO Wien)
Christine Zulehner studied Mathematics at the Vienna University of Technology and Economics at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna and at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Before joining the Austrian Institute of Economic Research, she held positions in Vienna and Berlin at various institutions such as the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, the Social Science Research Center Berlin, and the University of Vienna. Since June 2008, she has held the position as a research staff member at the Austrian Institute of Economic Research. Professor Zulehner’s main research focuses on labour market, income and social policy labour economics, industrial organisation and applied microeonometrics.