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Joe Gyourko is the Martin Bucksbaum Professor of Real Estate, Finance and Business & Public Policy at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He served as the Nancy Nasher and David Haemiseggar Director of the Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center at Wharton for the past quarter century, and he is a past Chair of the Wharton Real Estate Department. Professor Gyourko’s research interests include housing markets in the United States and China, real estate finance and investments, and urban economics. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and served as Co-Director of the special NBER Project on Housing Markets and the Financial Crisis. Professor Gyourko served as co-editor of the Journal of Urban Economics and serves on various journal editorial boards. Professor Gyourko is a past Trustee of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and a past member of the Board of Directors of the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA). Finally, he consults for various private firms on real estate investment and policy matters.
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Current Positions
- Martin Bucksbaum Professor of Real Estate, Finance, and Business & Public Policy, University of Pennsylvania Wharton School
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Past Positions
- Nancy Nasher and David Haemisegger Director of the Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center, Wharton
- Co-Director, NBER Project on Housing Markets and the Financial Crisis
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Education
- Ph.D., Economics, University of Chicago
- A.B., Duke University