The faculty at the Fisher Center for Real Estate & Urban Economics at the Haas School includes some of the most accomplished, most highly regarded professors and professionals in the business.
Robert H. Edelstein
Professor Emeritus, 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.
Amir Kermani
Associate Professor of Finance and Real Estate. Research interests include monetary policy, macroeconomy and housing, securitization market and political economy.
Tim McQuade
Associate Professor of Finance and Real Estate. His core research interests lie in issues related to real estate economics, household finance, and innovation. His previous work has focused on the local welfare effects of affordable housing, the consequences of rent control, and optimal mortgage design.
Enrico Moretti
Michael Peevy and Donald Vial Professor of Economics. Professor Moretti’s research covers the fields of labor economics and urban economics.
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.
Richard Stanton
Professor of Finance and Real Estate, Kingsford Capital Management Chair in Business. Research interests include mortgage and lease markets, term structure modeling, mutual funds and risk management, and employee stock options.
Nick Tsivanidis
Assistant Professor. Research interests include urbanization in developing countries, development economics, urban and regional economics, applied macroeconomics.
Nancy E. Wallace
Professor, Lisle and Roslyn Payne Chair in Real Estate and Capital Markets, Real Estate Group, Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy Co-Faculty Director and Fisher Center Co-Chair. Studies asset-backed securitization and real estate investment analysis, strategy, and finance.
Lecturers Dennis M. Williams (Northmarq Capital) and William Falik (Westpark Communties, Berkeley Law) augment Haas’ Real Estate faculty group.
Faculty Associates
The Faculty Associates of the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics represent an interdisciplinary, cross-campus collaboration between faculty with a research interest in real estate and urban economics.
Mary Comerio, Architecture
Robert Edelstein, Haas School of Business
Carol Galante, College of Environmental Design
Amir Kermani, Haas School of Business
Jonathan Leonard, Haas School of Business
Jeff Perloff, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Carolina Reid, College of Environmental Design
Kenneth Rosen, Haas School of Business
Daniel Rubinfeld, Berkeley School of Law
Richard Stanton, Haas School of Business
Michael Tietz, City & Regional Planning
Nick Tsivanidis, Haas School of Business
Molly Turner, Haas School of Business
Paul Waddell, College of Environmental Design
Nancy Wallace, Haas School of Business
James Wilcox, Haas School of Business