Research Seminar Series

The Lusk Center’s Real Estate Research Seminar Series is an opportunity for visiting scholars to present their work and participate in discussion with faculty from across USC, including from the Dornsife College of Letters Arts and Sciences, Price School of Public Policy, and Marshall School of Business. This year’s series will cover a wide variety of topics in real estate and urban economics.

The schedule below displays all confirmed speakers including the topic of their talk and, if available, a link to their working paper and presentation.

RSVP is required. If you would like to attend a Lusk Research Seminar, please contact Nina Tibayan at tibayan@usc.edu or 213.740.0969.

Spring 2023

DATE AND TIME	SPEAKER	PRESENTATION TITLE
February 10, 2023 12:00-1:30pm RGL 308	Kwan Ok Lee National University of Singapore	Big Data for Housing and Their Interaction with Market Dynamics
March 24, 2023 12:00-1:30pm RGL 100	Yongheng Deng Univeristy of Wisconsin - Madison	The COVID-19 Pandemic and Unemployment: Evidence from Mobile Phone Data from China
April 7, 2023 12:00-1:30pm RGL 103	Stephanie Moulton Ohio State University	Racial Differences in Refinancing and Forbearance Among Low-Income Homeowners During COVID-19
April 21, 2023 12:00-1:30pm RGL 209	Anthony Orlando California State Polytechnic University, Pomona	The Causes and Consequences of Development Costs: Evidence from Multifamily Housing
April 28, 2023 12:00-1:30pm RGL 308	Daniel McMillen University of Illinois Chicago	Assessment Persistence
May 5, 2023 12:00-1:30pm RGL 103	Stephen Malpezzi University of Wisconsin-Madison	Talk Title TBD

Fall 2022

DATE AND TIME	SPEAKER	PRESENTATION TITLE
September 2, 2022 12:30-1:45pm RGL 308	Eunjee Kwon University of Cincinnati	The Unintended Consequences of Post-Disaster Policies for Spatial Sorting
September 16, 2022 12:30-1:45pm RGL 308	Xudon An Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia	Eviction Risk of Rental Housing: Does It Matter How Your Landlord Finances the Property?
October 7, 2022 12:30-1:45pm RGL 308	Albert Saiz Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Local Cultural Roots, Immigrant Settlement, and Economic Outcomes: Evidence from Spanish Toponymy in the US
October 21, 2022 12:30-1:45pm RGL 308	Rogier Holtermans University of Guelph	Climate Risk and Commercial Mortgage Delinquency
October 28, 2022 12:30-1:45pm RGL 219	J. Vernon Henderson London School of Economics	Land Quality
November 4, 2022 12:30-1:45pm RGL 308	Dragana Cvijanovic Cornell University	Opioid Crisis and Real Estate Prices
November 11, 2022 12:30-1:45pm RGL 308	Sonia Gilbukh Baruch College	Listing Alert: Alternative Theory of Housing Search

Spring 2022

DATE AND TIME	SPEAKER	PRESENTATION TITLE
February 4, 2022 12:00-1:30pm RGL 308	Brent Ambrose Pennsylvania State University	Federal Tax Deductions and the Provision of Local Public Goods
March 25, 2022 12:00-1:30pm RGL 219	Raven Molloy Federal Reserve Board	Differences in rent growth by income 1985-2019 and implications for real income inequality
April 1, 2022 12:00-1:30pm RGL 103	Judson Boomhower UC San Diego	Mandated vs. voluntary adaptation to natural disasters: the case of U.S. wildfires
April 8, 2022 12:00-1:30pm RGL 308	Franklin Qian UNC-Chapel HIll	The effects of high-skilled firm entry on incumbent residents
Postponed to Fall 2022	Davin Reed Federal Reseve Bank of Philadelpia	Title TBD
April 29, 2022 12:00-1:30pm RGL 308	Spencer Couts USC Sol Price School of Public Policy	How do non-core allocations affect the risk and returns of private real estate funds?

FALL 2021

DATE AND TIME	SPEAKER	PRESENTATION TITLE
October 1, 2021 12:00-1:30pm RGL 308	Marco Giacoletti USC Marshall School of Buisness	Using high-frequency evaluations to estimate discrimination: evidence from the mortgage market
October 29, 2021 12:00-1:30pm RGL 308	Emily Weisburst UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs	Do police make too many arrests?
November 5, 2021 12:00-1:30pm RGL 308	José Loya UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs	Ethno-racial stratification in the mortgage market: the role of co-applicants
November 12, 2021 12:00-1:30pm RGL 308	Patrick Smith SDSU Fowler College of Business	The effect of mortgage securitization on asset liquidation decisions.
December 3, 2021 12:00-1:30pm RGL 308	Meisha Williams Morehouse College, USC Price	Gender and Microcredit in Sub-Saharan Africa: the Case of Mozambican Smaller Households

SPRING 2020

DATE AND TIME	SPEAKER	PRESENTATION TITLE
January 31, 2020 12:00-1:30pm RGL 308	Nadia Greenhalgh-Stanley Kent State University	Housing wealth, bequests, and the elderly
February 14, 2020 12:00-1:30pm RGL 308	Ronan Lyons Trinity College Dublin	The house that union jack built: Social housing and the spread of population in Ireland
February 28, 2020 12:00-1:30pm RGL 308	Arpit Gupta New York University	Take the Q train: Value capture of public infrastructure projects
- Postponed - 12:00-1:30pm RGL 308	Raven Molloy Federal Reserve Board	Housing supply and affordability: Evidence from rents, housing consumption and household location
- Postponed - 12:00-1:30pm RGL 308	Davin Reed Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia	The local effects of new market-rate housing in low-income areas
- Postponed - 12:00-1:30pm RGL 308	Brent Ambrose Pennsylvania State University	Preferential treatment in financial contracts: Does borrower and broker race affect mortagage prices?

FALL 2019

DATE AND TIME	SPEAKER	PRESENTATION TITLE
September 6, 2019 12:00-1:30pm RGL308	David Ling University of Florida	There's no place like home: Information asymmetries, local asset concentration, and portfolio returns
September 13, 2019 12:00-1:30pm RGL308	Leah Brooks George Washington University	Infrastructure costs
October 4, 2019 12:00-1:30pm RGL100	Adam Storeygard Tufts University	Mobility and congestion in urban India
October 18, 2019 12:00-1:30pm RGL308	Eva Steiner Cornell University	Collateral values and corporate borrowing: Evidence from contract- level data
November 1, 2019 12:00-1:30pm RGL308	Dowell Myers University of Southern California	Re-timing the homeownership rise
November 15, 2019 12:00-1:30pm RGL100	Nathaniel Baum-Snow University of Toronto	The microgeography of housing supply

SPRING 2019

DATE AND TIME	SPEAKER	PRESENTATION TITLE
January 25, 2019 12:00-1:30pm RGL 101	Diego Puga CEMFI	Calling From The Outside: The Role Of Networks in Residential Mobility
February 8, 2019 12:00-1:30pm RGL 215	Frank Nothaft CoreLogic	Single-family Rental: Measuring Rent Growth and Return
February 15, 2019 12:00-1:30pm RGL 101	Richard Florida University of Toronto	The Rise of Winner-Take-All Cities
February 22, 2019 10:30-12:00 pm RGL 100	Kathy O'Regan New York University	Geographic Mobility and Parental Coresidence Among Young Adults
March 8, 2019 12:00-1:30pm RGL 308	Brian Asquith Upjohn Institute	Do Rent Increases Reduce the Housing Supply Under Rent Control? Evidence from Evictions in San Francisco
March 15, 2019 12:00-1:30pm RGL 308	Jung Hyun Choi Urban Institute	Gaining Access to Peer Effects: School Enrollment of the Disadvantaged And City Skill Levels
April 19, 2019 12:00-1:30pm RGL 101	Vernon Henderson The London School of Economics	Colonial legacies: Shaping African cities

SPRING 2017

DATE AND TIME	SPEAKER	PRESENTATION TITLE
February 10, 2017 12:00-1:30pm RGL 308	Elisabeth Perlman United States Census Bureau	Dense Enough To Be Brilliant: Patents, Urbanization, and Transportation in Nineteenth Century America
February 17, 2017 12:00-1:30pm RGL 308	Xudong An Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia	Sustainable Development and Commercial Real Estate Financing
March 3, 2017 12:00-1:30pm RGL 308	Thomas Davidoff University of British Columbia	Housing Appreciation and Marginal Land Supply in Monocentric Cities with Topography
March 10, 2017 12:00-1:30pm RGL 308	Crocker Liu Cornell University	Using Cash Flow Dynamics to Price Thinly Traded Assets
March 24, 2017 11:30am-1:00pm RGL 101	Jefferey Sellers University of Southern California	The Emerging Face of Suburban India: The Geography of Housing Markets
April 14, 2017 12:00-1:30pm RGL 308	Alvin Murphy Arizona State University	A Dynamic Model of Housing Supply
April 21, 2017 11:30am-1:00pm RGL 103	Jung Hyun Choi University of Southern California	Wage Trickle Down vs. Rent Trickle Down: How does increase in college graduates affect wages and rents?
May 11, 2017 12:00pm-1:30pm Room TBA	Vincent Yao Georgia State University	Cognitive Reference Points, the Left-Digit Effect, and Clustering in Housing Markets

FALL 2016

DATE AND TIME	SPEAKER	PRESENTATION TITLE
September 23, 2016 12:00-1:30pm RGL 100	Rodney Ramcharan University of Southern California	Financial Volatility and Household Consumption
September 30, 2016 12:00-1:30pm RGL 100	Isaac Hacamo Indiana University	The Babies of Financial Deregulation
October 7, 2016 12:00-1:30pm RGL 100	Rogier Holtermans University of Southern California	Environmental Performance and the Cost of Capital: Evidence from Commercial Mortgages and U.S. REIT Bonds
October 14, 2016 12:00-1:30pm RGL 100	Hyojung Lee University of Southern California	Estimating the Long-Term Effects of Huricane Katrina
October 21, 2016 12:00-1:30pm RGL 308	Victor Couture University of California, Berkeley	Urban Revival in America, 2000 to 2010
November 11, 2016 12:00-1:30pm RGL 308	Emma Aguila University of Southern California	The Effects of Income Supplemental Programs on Living Arrangements and Family Transfers of Older Adults in Mexico
November 18, 2016 12:00-1:30pm RGL 103	Edward Kung University of California, Los Angeles	The Effect of Mortgage Credit Availability on House Prices and Construction: Evidence from a Frontier Estimation Approach