Fisher Center for Real Estate & Urban Economics

 

Faculty


Fisher Center for Real Estate & Urban Economics
Haas Real Estate students have access to one of the leading real estate research and outreach centers in the country. The Fisher Center educates students, trains professionals, and conducts research on real estate markets, financial institutions, urban economics, and the economy of the state of California. The center regularly hosts practicums, conferences, and symposia for academic and business leaders and government officials—and Haas students are frequently invited. This gives students the opportunity to interact with industry leaders and become engaged in the cutting edge research that is one of the hallmarks of the Fisher Center.



Faculty Excellence
The Haas School of Business Real Estate and Urban Economics faculty includes some of the most accomplished professors in the field. The low student-to faculty ratio provides students in the Real Estate Program with individual attention from some of the most highly regarded professors and professionals in the business.


• Robert H. Edelstein, Professor, Maurice Mann Chair in Real Estate, and Fisher Center Co-Chair, studies real estate economics, finance, and property taxation; energy and environmental economics; public finance; and urban financial problems.

 

• Robert Helsley, Professor, Haas Chair in Real Estate Development, and Fisher Center Co-Chair, studies the development of urban areas, land markets, and government tax, spending and regulatory policies.

 

• Dwight M. Jaffee, Willis Booth Professor of Banking, Finance, and Real Estate, and Fisher Center Co-Chair, studies real estate finance, catastrophe insurance and the subprime mortgage crisis.

 

• Atif R. Mian, Associate Professor of Finance and Real Estate at the Haas School of Business; Associate Professor of Finance at the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley; and Fisher Center Co-Chair, studies finance and the macro economy, financial intermediation, household finance, political economy of financial markets, and development economics.

 

• John Quigley, Professor and Director, Berkeley Program on Housing & the Urban Economy, studies the integration of real estate, mortgage and financial markets; urban labor markets; housing; spatial economics; and local public finance.

 

• Kenneth T. Rosen, Fisher Center Chairman, is directly responsible for revitalizing the Fisher Center. Revered for his real estate and economic forecasts, he also studies real estate securitization, REITs, commercial real estate dynamics, and real estate e-commerce.

 

• Alexei Tchistyi, Assistant Professor, focuses on mortgages, mortgage backed securities, mortgage contract design, financial innovations, dynamic contracting, agency theory and corporate finance.

 

• Nancy E. Wallace, Professor, Haas Real Estate Group Chair and Fisher Center Co-Chair, studies asset-backed securitization and real estate investment analysis, strategy, and finance.

 

• Lecturers Arden Hall, David Nelson (Wells Fargo’s Corporate Properties Group), Dennis M. Williams (Northmarq Capital) and William Falik (Adjunct Professor, Berkeley Law) augment Haas’ Real Estate faculty group.

Curriculum
Students in the Real Estate Program take core classes in the Berkeley MBA Program, as well as electives in the Real Estate track. These targeted course offerings, in the form of lectures, projects, case studies, and customized individual projects, include:



Enhancing the curriculum, the Fisher Center provides a dynamic context where academics, students and professionals can work together in a stimulating environment that integrates research, teaching and professional development. Active members of the Fisher Center’s Policy Advisory Board, comprised of influential leaders in both the private and public sectors, are frequent guest lecturers and provide valuable support for real estate educational activities, faculty and student research, and job placement. The long list of eminently successful graduates and Fisher Center advisors attests to the ultimate practicality of this approach.