Robert W. Helsley
Chair in Real Estate Development
PhD, Economics
Princeton University
Research:
- Knowledge Sharing and Innovation in Cities
- Gated Communities and the Economic Geography of Crime
- Social Interactions and Urban Development
- The Economics of "Private Governments"
- The Implications of Outsourcing for Urban and Regional Development
- Building Height Contests and Overbuilding in Commercial Property Markets
Publication Highlights:
- "Entrepreneurs and Cities: Complexity, Thickness and Balance," with W.C. Strange, 2010, under review.
- "Sprawl and Blight," with Jan K. Brueckner, September 2009, under review.
- "A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Skyscrapers," with W.C. Strange, Journal of Urban Economics, 64, pp. 49-64, 2008.
- "Agglomeration, Opportunism and the Organization of Production," with W.C. Strange, Journal of Urban Economics, 2007.
- "Interactions and Urban Spatial Structure," with W.C. Strange, Journal of Economic Geography, 7, pp.119-138, March 2007.
- "Mixed Markets and Crime," with W.C. Strange, Journal of Public Economics, 89, pp. 1251-1275, 2005.
