Faculty and Executive Leadership Directory

 

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
1998 - present, Willis H. Booth Chair in Banking & Finance
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)

2007- present,  Board Member, Center for the Built Environment (School of Architecture)

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
• Board Member, Global Earthquake Model

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

• "Who's Who in America," 65th and 66th editions, 2011 and 2012
• Ten-Year Field Impact award, 2007, The American Risk Insurance Association
• 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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