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	Robert Helsley Professor and Chair in Real Estate Development Co-Chair, Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics Haas Real Estate Group 510-642-7826 Email: click on the envelope icon below for full email address Academic Status: On duty Office Hours: By appointment Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required) LinkedIn Profile

Education

BS, Economics (with Honors) and Mathematics, University of Oregon
MA, Economics, Princeton University
PhD, Economics, Princeton University

Positions Held

At Haas since 2008
2008 - present, Professor, Haas School of Business
2008 - present, Co-Chair, Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics, Haas School of Business
2002 - 2008, Associate Dean, Faculty and Research, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
2002 - 2008, Watkinson Professor of Environmental and Land Management, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
2000 - 2002, Alumni Professor of Urban and Public Economics, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
1997 - 1999, Philip H. White Professor of Urban Land Economics, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
1992 - 1997, Director, UBC Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia

External Service and Assignments

Co-Editor, Journal of Urban Economics

Current Research and Interests

Urban and public economics
Agglomeration
Political economy

Selected Papers and Publications

"A game-theoretic analysis of skyscrapers," with W.C. Strange. Journal of Urban Economics 64 (2008): 49-64.
"Urban Political Economics." J.F. Thisse and V. Henderson (eds.) Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, Volume 4. Amsterdam: North-Holland, pp. 2381-2421, 2004.
"Social Interactions and the Institutions of Local Government," with W.C. Strange. American Economic Review 90, no. 5 (2000): 1477-1490.
"Redevelopment and the Land Price Gradient," with S.S. Rosenthal. Journal of Urban Economics 35, no. 2 (1994): 182-200.
"Matching and Agglomeration Economies in a System of Cities," with W.C. Strange. Regional Science and Urban Economics 20 (1990): 189-212. Reprinted in Henderson, J.V. (ed) New Economic Geography. The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, 2005.
"The Stochastic City," with D.R. Capozza. Journal of Urban Economics 28, no. 2 (1990): 187-203. Reprinted in Parks, P.J. and I.W. Harde (eds.) The Economics of Land Use. The International Library of Environmental Economics and Policy. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2003, pp. 195-211. Reprinted in Cheshire, P.C. and Duranton, G. (eds.) Recent Developments in Urban and Regional Economics. The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, pp. 3-19, 2004.

Teaching

Undergraduate Seminar in Urban and Real Estate Economics, UGBA 187

Honors and Awards

Graduate Teaching Award, Princeton University
First Prize, American Real Estate and Urban Economics Doctoral Dissertation Competition
Izaak Walton Killam Faculty Research Fellowship, University of British Columbia

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