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Robert Helsley

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
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Academic Status: On duty
Office Hours: By appointment
Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required)
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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, University of British Columbia
2000 - 2002, Alumni Professor of Urban and Public Economics, University of British Columbia
1997 - 1999, Philip H. White Professor of Urban Land Economics, University of British Columbia
1992 - 1997, Director, UBC Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics, University of British Columbia


External Service and Assignments

  • 2009 - present, Co-Editor, Journal of Urban Economics
  • 1996-2008, Board of Editors, Journal of Urban Economics
  • 1997-2004, Associate Editor, Regional Science and Urban Economics

Current Research and Interests

  • Urban and public economics
  • Agglomeration
  • Political economy

Selected Papers and Publications

 
  • "Coagglomeration and the Scale and Composition of Clusters" with W.C. Strange. Working Paper.
  • "Social networks and interactions in cities," with Y. Zenou. Working Paper.
  • "Entrepreneurs and cities: Complexity, thickness and balance," with W.C. Strange. Regional Science and Urban Economics 41 (2011): 550-559.
  • "Sprawl and blight," with J.K. Brueckner. Journal of Urban Economics 69 (2011): 205-213.
  • "A game-theoretic analysis of skyscrapers," with W.C. Strange. Journal of Urban Economics 64 (2008): 49-64.
  • "Agglomeration, opportunism and the organization of production, " with W.C. Strange. Journal of Urban Economics 62 (2007): 55-75.
  • "Urban political economics" in J.F. Thisse and J.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 (2000): 1477-1490.
  • "Private government," with W.C. Strange. Journal of Public Economics 69 (1998): 281-304.
  • "Redevelopment and the land price gradient," with S.S. Rosenthal. Journal of Urban Economics 35 (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 (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, 2003. Reprinted in Cheshire, P.C. and G. Duranton (eds.) Recent Developments in Urban and Regional Economics. The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, 2004.
  • "The fundamentals of land prices and urban growth," with D.R. Capozza. Journal of Urban Economics 26 (1989): 295-306. Reprinted in Parks, P.J. and I.W. Harde (eds.) The Economics of Land Use. The International Library of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2003.

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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