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Dwight M. Jaffee

Willis Booth Professor of Banking, Finance, and Real Estate
Co-Chair, Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics
Haas Finance Group
Haas Real Estate Group
510-642-1273
Email: click on the envelope icon below for full email address
Academic Status: On duty
Personal Homepage: http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/jaffee/research.htm
Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required)

Education

BA, Economics, Northwestern University
PhD, Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Positions Held

At Haas since 1991
2009 - present, Willis H. Booth Chair in Banking & Finance II
1991 - present, Full Professor of Finance and Real Estate
1991 - present, Co-Chair, Fisher Center for Real Estate & Urban Economics, Haas School of Business
1998 - present, Willis Booth Professor of Banking, Finance, and Real Estate
2004 - present, Board Member, Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy (Boalt School of Law)
2004 - 2005, Chair, Real Estate Group
2001 - 2002, Chair, Finance Group
1968 - 1991, Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor, Princeton University

External Service and Assignments

Fitch Ratings Academic Advisory Board
Independent Director, Genworth Financial Mutual Funds

Current Research and Interests

Catastrophe insurance (terrorism and earthquakes)
Real estate markets and real estate finance
Financial institutions and lending activity
International trade and the California economy

Selected Papers and Publications

See Research homepage

Teaching

Asset-Backed Securitization (MFE program), BA 230M
Ph.D. Real Estate Seminar, BA 289A
Real Estate Research Seminar, BA 298
Real Estate Finance, BA 183
Real Estate Finance, BA 283

Honors and Awards

Berkeley-National University of Singapore Risk Management Institute Grant, 2007
Research Institute for Housing America Trust Fund Grant, 2007
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant, 2007
Center for International Trade Development Grant, 2005-2006
Fellow, Homer Hoyt Institute in Real Estate, 2003
California Policy Research Center 1998, and 2002-2003
"Who's Who in Business Higher Education," "Who's Who in Economics," "Who's Who in America," 2001
National Science Foundation Grants, 1973, 1975, 1979
MIT, Woodrow Wilson Fellowship; N.D.E.A. IV Fellowship, 1965 to 1968
Northwestern University, Highest Honors and Phi Beta Kappa, 1964

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