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Dwight Jaffee

Willis Booth Professor of Banking, Finance, and Real Estate
Haas Real Estate Group, Haas Finance Group
Co-Chair, Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics
Tel: 1-510--642-1273
Fax: 1-510-643-7441
Email: click on the envelope icon below for full email address
Academic Status: On duty, 2006-2007
Personal Homepage: Research homepage and Teaching homepage
Academic Group Homepage: Real Estate and Finance
Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required)

Education

BA, economics, Northwestern University
Ph.D., economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Positions Held

At Haas School of Business since 1991:
1991 - present, Full Professor of Finance and Real Estate
1991 - present, Co-Chairman, 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, Chairman, Real Estate Group
2001 - 2002, Chairman, Finance Group
1968 - 1991, Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor, Princeton University

External Service and Assignments

Current affiliations:

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

Past affiliations:

Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Associate editor: Journal of Economic Perspectives; Journal of Finance, Journal of Money, Banking and Credit, Journal of Monetary Economics, and Housing Finance Review
Public interest director, Federal Home Loan Bank of New York and other thrift institutions
Member, advisory council, Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation
Consultant, World Bank for technical assistance to Russia
Consultant, China 1990 Institute (banking reform in China)
Consultant, housing and mortgage market activity, Federal Reserve Board, US Treasury Department, US Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Federal Home Loan Bank System

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

BA230M, Asset-Backed Securitization (MFE program)
BA289A, Ph.D. Real Estate Seminar
BA298, Real Estate Research Seminar
BA183, Real Estate Finance
BA283, Real Estate Finance

Honors, Awards, and Grants

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

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