Working Papers

The Lusk Center for Real Estate publishes papers on a wide-ranging set of topics including real estate finance and investments, land use, transportation, urban growth and regulation, asset pricing, and the line. These papers reflect real estate research undertaken by faculty in the Marshall School of Business, Price School of Public Policy and the Law School. Papers are available electronically below. For hard copies, contact Nina Tibayan.

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Year Title Author(s)
2010 Is the 'Shop Around the Corner' a Luxury or a Nuisance? The relationship between income and neighborhood retail patterns

Jenny Schuetz, Jed Kolko, and Rachel Meltzer

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2010 Immigrant Settlement and Employment Suburbanization: Is There a Spatial Mismatch?

Cathy Yang Liu and Gary Painter

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2010 Urban Structure: It's Role in Urban Growth, Net New Business Formation and Industrial Churn

Bumsoo Lee and Peter Gordon

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2010 Housing Tenure Choice, Race and the Recommendations of the President’s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform

Richard K. Green and Andrew Reschovsky

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2010 Travel Behavior among Latino Immigrants: The Role of Ethnic Neighborhoods and Ethnic Employment

Cathy Yang Liu and Gary Painter

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2010 Urban Structure and Economic Growth

Peter Gordon and Harry W. Richardson

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2009 Forced Sale Risk: Class, Race, and The 'Double Discount'

Thomas W. Mitchell, Stephen Malpezzi and Richard K. Green

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2009 Demographi Forces and Turning Points in the American City, 1950-2040

Dowell Myers and John Pitkin

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2009 Silver Bullet or Trojan Horse? The Effects of Inclusionary Zoning on Local Housing Markets

Jenny Schuetz, Rachel Meltzer, and Vicki Been

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2009 The Rise and Fall of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: Lessons Learned and Options for Reform

Richard K. Green and Ann B. Schnare

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2008 Housing Wealth, Financial Wealth, and Consumption: New Evidence from Micro Data - Revised

Raphael Bostic, Stuart Gabriel, Gary Painter

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2008 Is Public Space A Public Good? A Structure/Agency View of Narrative of Loss

Surajit Chakravarty

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2008 The Relationship between Stock Returns and Past Performance of Hotel Real Estate Industry in the US: Is Hotel Real Estate prone to overinvestment

Minye Zhang & Yongheng Deng

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2008 REITs Return Behavior and Legal Infrastructure: The 1993 Revenue Reconciliation Act & Inspirations for China's Emerging REITS Market

Minye Zhang & Yongheng Deng

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2008 Elderly Homeownership Transitions

Gary Painter & KwanOk Lee

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2008 Ethnic Enclave Residence & Employment Accessibility of Latino Workers in Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington DC

Cathy Yang Liu

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2008 Immigrants and Housing Markets in Mid-size Metropolitan Areas

Gary Painter and Zhou Yu

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2007 The Housing Finance Revolution

Richard K. Green and Susan M. Wachter

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2007 Estimation, Interpretation, and Hypothesis Testing for Nonparametric Hedonic House Price Functions

Daniel P. McMillen & Christopher Redfearn

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2007 Economic Redevelopment and the Community Benefits Program: A Case Study of the L.A. Live Project, A Los Angeles Sports and Entertainment District.

Leland Saito

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