Department of Risk Management/Insurance, Real Estate and Legal Studies
Dean & Kathy Gatzlaff Assistant Professor of Real Estate
I study how location, institutions, technology, and environmental risk shape real asset markets and investment decisions. My work spans commercial real estate, asset pricing, sustainability, climate finance, and emerging technologies.
Selected work
A selection spanning foundational contributions and the current pipeline.
View all researchReal Estate Economics Published
Documents a post-pandemic shift toward health-oriented commercial buildings and links healthy-building exposure to investment, performance, and mobility.
Real Estate Economics Published
Uses a geographic instrumental variable to identify how idiosyncratic shocks in local property markets are capitalized into listed commercial real estate returns.
Under review
Examines how exposure to generative AI changes tenant rents, listed real estate valuations, analyst forecasts, and operating performance through labor substitution and reallocation.
Under review
Analyzes insurance costs across major U.S. commercial real estate sectors, their response to expected and realized climate risk, and the incidence of higher premiums.
Working paper
Shows how overlapping corporate real-asset networks shape investment and debt issuance, including a collateral channel tied to corporate real estate holdings.
The Review of Asset Pricing Studies Published
Examines how local COVID-19 exposure, policy interventions, and reopenings were reflected in commercial real estate firms' stock returns.
Open research
Public repositories supporting reproducible inquiry and further exploration.
Data and code supporting research on local COVID-19 exposure and commercial real estate prices.
View repositoryUnlevered and property-portfolio return data used in research on asset productivity, information diffusion, and commercial real estate returns.
View repositoryFor students & researchers
Guides and tools collected through teaching, research, and practice.
Browse resourcesSelected material on climate risk, sustainability, and real estate.
ExploreA curated list of economics, finance, and research podcasts.
ExploreSelected books, articles, and other reading recommendations.
ExploreReference material on REITs and public real estate markets.
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