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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 discussions 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 2024

DATE AND TIME   SPEAKER  PRESENTATION TITLE

February 16, 2024
12:30- 1:45pm
     RGL 308

Gregor Schubert
UCLA Anderson School
of Management

The Real Effects of Household Financial
Constraints: When Money Moves In

 February 23, 2024
9:00am-5:00pm
     RGL 308

Special Event:
Lusk Center with
PIPE Collaborative

The Political Economy of Housing
 March 8, 2024
12:30- 1:45pm
     RGL 308

Ben Hyman
Federal Reserve Bank
of New York

Firm responses to state hiring subsidies:
Regression discontinuity evidence from
a tax credit formula.

March 22, 2024
12:30- 1:45pm
     RGL 308

Ingrid Gould Ellen
NYU Wagner
Furman Center for Real Estate
and Urban Policy

The Bronx is Burning:
Urban Disinvestment Effects of the
Fair Access to Insurance Requirements

April 5, 2024
12:30- 1:45pm
     RGL 308
Gilles Duranton
Wharton School of the
University of Pennsylvania

Talk Title TBA

April 26, 2024
12:30- 1:45pm
     RGL 308
Amir Kermani
UC Berkeley
Hass School of Business

Talk Title TBA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Prior Research Seminars 2016-2023

Fall 2023

DATE AND TIME   SPEAKER  PRESENTATION TITLE

September 8, 2023
12:30- 1:45pm
     RGL 308

Michael Reher
University of California
San Diego

Real Effects of Rollover Risk:
 Evidence from Hotels in Crisis

 September 22, 2023
12:30- 1:45pm
     RGL 103

Jack Liebersohn
Univeristy of California
Irvine

Mortgage Lock
 October 20, 2023
12:30- 1:45pm
     RGL 103

Xi Yang
University of North Texas

More Credit, Fewer Babies? Bank Credit
Expansion, House Price, and Fertility

November 3, 2023
12:30- 1:45pm
     RGL 308

J. Vernon Henderson
London School of Economics

Evaluating Urban Planning:
Evidence from Dar es Salaam

November 10, 2023
12:30- 1:45pm
     RGL 308
Luis A. Lopez
University of Illinois Chicago

Redlining and Realtor Associations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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