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Nancy Wallace

Nancy Wallace

Professor

California Chair of Real Estate and Urban Economics
Chair, Haas Real Estate Group

Co-Chair, Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics

1-510-642-4732
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Office Hours: T 2:00-3:30 PM, F626
Personal Homepage: http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/wallace/WallWeb/Firstry.html
Academic Group Homepage: http://groups.haas.berkeley.edu/realestate/
Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required)

 

Education

BA, political science, The University of Michigan
License, Maitrisse, The University of Paris VIII, Institute of Urbanism
Ph.D., urban and regional planning, The University of Michigan

 

Positions Held

At Haas since 1986
2000 - present Professor in Real Estate, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
1993 - 2000 Associate Professor in Real Estate, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
1986 - 1993 Assistant Professor in Real Estate, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Spring 1997 Visiting Associate Professor in Finance, Graduate School of Business. Stanford University

 

External Service and Assignments

  • Board of directors and Past President, American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association
  • Visiting scholar: San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stockholm School of Economics
  • Editorial board: Journal of Computational Finance, Real Estate Economics, Journal of Real Estate Research

 

Current Research and Interests

  • Housing price indices and models to monitor residential real estate price movements over the business cycle.
  • Mortgage prepayment and pricing models, mortgage contract design, and the market microstructure of mortgage backed security trading.
  • Option pricing models for pricing commercial and retail real estate leases for use in the commercial mortgage backed securities markets.
  • Executive stock option valuation.

 

Selected Papers and Publications

  • "The Anatomy of an ARM: Index Dynamics and Adjustable Rate Mortgage Valuation," with Richard Stanton. Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Volume 19, No. 1, 1998.
  • “Housing Price Cycles and Prepayment Rates of U.S. Mortgage Pools,” with Joe Mattey, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics , Volume 23, No. 2, 2001.
  • “Firm Performance and Executive Compensation in the Savings and Loan Industry,” with Benjamin Hermalin, Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 61, 2001.
  • “Dwelling Price Dynamics in Paris, France” with Richard Meese, Urban Studies, Volume 40, No. 5/6, May 2003.
  • “An Empirical Test of a Two-Factor Mortgage Prepayment and Valuation Model: How Much Do House Prices Matter?” with Christopher Downing and Richard Stanton, Real Estate Economics, Volume 33, No. 3, 2005.
  • “Innovations in Mortgage Modelling: An Introduction,” Real Estate Economics, Volume 33, No. 3, 2005.

 

Teaching

  • E283, Real Estate Finance
  • MBA280, Real Estate Investment Analysis
  • MBA284, Real Estate Strategy
  • MBA180, Real Estate Investment Analysis and Urban Economics
  • MFE230M, Asset-backed Securization

 

Honors and Awards

  • Earl F. Cheit Outstanding Teaching Award, Haas School, 2002, 2005



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