BERKELEY, Calif., Sept. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley can provide leading experts in the field of real estate, banking, finance, and the economy to address the news unfolding around the financial market turmoil and troubled U.S. housing market.
A list of key experts follows below. Additional sources can be found on the Haas web site at http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/groups.html . An online experts list will be available online by early next week at http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/news/sources.html .
For additional help, please contact Haas School media relations:
Ute Frey 510-642-0342 frey@haas.berkeley.edu
or
Pamela Tom (on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays) 510-642-2734 ptom@haas.berkeley.edu
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HAAS REAL ESTATE, BANKING, AND FINANCE EXPERTS
Banking/Finance/Economy
- Terrance Odean
Willis H. Booth Chair in Banking and Finance I
Haas Finance Group
Office: 510-642-6767
E-mail: odean@haas.berkeley.edu
Web: http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/odean.html
Expertise: Behavioral finance; individual investor finance; gender investment behavior
Odean on the crisis: "The various bailouts that have been announced and proposed could potentially cost the average family of four over $10,000, so let's not act rashly." - 9/24/08
- Richard Stanton
Professor
Haas Finance Group
Office: 510-642-7382
E-mail: stanton@haas.berkeley.edu
Web: http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/stanton.html
Expertise: Mortgage markets and techniques for hedging and pricing derivatives
- James Wilcox
Kruttschnitt Family Professor of Financial Institutions
Haas Economic Analysis and Policy Group
Haas Finance Group
Office: 510-642-2455
E-mail: jwilcox@haas.berkeley.edu
Web: http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/wilcox.html
Expertise: Treasury's rescue plan; banking; Federal Reserve; monetary policy; interest rates; economy-wide unemployment and inflation.
On the crisis: "The Treasury's rescue plan has already stopped the panic in credit markets, and the plan can get credit flowing to businesses and individuals, while presumably costing taxpayers very little. What we need to discuss is how the banks will be recapitalized by taxpayers and how much mortgage relief will be available to overburdened homeowners." - 9/24/08
Housing/Real Estate
- Ashok Bardhan
Senior Research Associate
Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics
Office: 510-643-7355
E-mail: bardhan@haas.berkeley.edu
Web: http://staff.haas.berkeley.edu/bardhan/
Expertise: Subprime financial crisis; outsourcing of R&D and its impact on US jobs and economy
- Thomas Davidoff
Assistant Professor
Haas Real Estate Group
Office: 510-643-1425
E-mail: davidoff@haas.berkeley.edu
Web: http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/davidoff.html
Expertise: Housing; home equity; real estate and urban economics
- Robert Edelstein
Professor, Haas Real Estate Group
Co-Chair, Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics
Office: 510-643-6105
E-mail: edelstei@haas.berkeley.edu
Web: http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/edelstein.html
Expertise: Subprime mortgage market and urban real estate economics
- Cynthia Kroll
Senior Regional Economist
Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics
Office: 510-643-6112
E-mail: kroll@haas.berkeley.edu
Web: http://staff.haas.berkeley.edu/kroll/
Expertise: California economic trends and their implications for real estate development opportunities and land development issues.
- Kenneth Rosen
Co-Chair, Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics
Office: 510-643-8274
E-mail: krosen@haas.berkeley.edu
Web: http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/rosen.html
Expertise: Economics of the housing and commercial real estate markets
Mr. Rosen outlines specific solutions to four of the
problems currently facing our financial and real estate
markets. Go to
http://groups.haas.berkeley.edu/realestate/Fisher/PAB/KRosenPR9-22-2008.pdf
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