Research Briefs

The Lusk Center publishes research briefs on an approximate monthly schedule over the course of the academic year. The briefs provide condensed presentation of USC scholarly research in real estate and are oriented to the professional, academic, and policy communities. Individual copies of recent research briefs are available in printed form on this web site. The Lusk Center research briefs are disseminated widely among the real estate academic and professional communities.
Year Title Author(s)
2018 Summary Bank Balance Sheets and Liquidation Values: Evidence from Real Estate Collateral

Rodney Ramcharan

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2018 The Price of Crowding: Modeling the Rental Market for Overcrowded Housing in Shanghai

Julia G. Harten and Annette M. Kim

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2018 Suburbanization and Spatial Inequality in India

Jeferey M. Sellers

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2017 Uncertainty and Housing

Rodney Ramcharan

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2013 Foreclosure-Gate and the $25 Billion National Mortgage Settlement: Implications for Future Litigation Exposure and Taxpayer Liability

Ashlyn Aiko Nelson and Anthony Konechnik

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2013 Listed and Non-listed REITs

Richard K. Green and Parker Rhea

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2010 Urban Structure: Role In Urban Growth, Net New Business Formation and Industrial Churn

Peter Gordon and Bumsoo Lee

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2010 Immigrant Influx into Mid-Size Metro Areas to Influence Housing Markets

Gary Painter and Zhou Yu

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2010 Housing Choices in Aging Households: The Influence of Life Cycle, Demographics, and Family

Gary Painter and KwanOk Lee

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2009 Do Local Government Policies Influence Employment Center Growth? Evidence from the Los Angeles Region

Ajay Agarwal

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2009 Rent - Price and the Earnings Yield on Housing

Yong Kim

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2009 An Empirical Analysis of Housing Price Dynamics with Factors

Yongheng Deng, Hyungsik Roger Moon, and Yanyu Wu

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2008 Has the Homeownership Rate Been Inflated? The Effect of Falling Household Formation

Dowell Myers and Zhou Yu

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2008 Leaving Gateway Metropolitan Areas in the United States: Immigrants and the Housing Market

Gary D. Painter and Zhou Yu

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2007 Commercial Mortgage Workout Strategy and Conditional Default Probability: Evidence from Special-Serviced CMBS Loans

Jun Chen and Yongheng Deng

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2006 The Termination of Mortgage Contracts through Prepayment and Default in the Commercial Mortgage Markets

Brian A. Ciochetti, Yongheng Deng, Bin Gao and Rui Yao

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2006 London's Early Shopping Malls 1570-1700

William Baer

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2005 Winter 2004, The Impact of CRA Agreements on Community Banks

Raphael W. Bostic and Breck L. Robinson

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2004 Preliminary Results on the Effectiveness of State Enterprise Zones

Charles Swenson

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2004 Spring 2004, Research Compendium

Various Authors

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