Berkeley Haas is joining with the Rausser College of Natural Resources to offer a new dual degree program, MBA + Master in Climate Solutions. The combined program will take 2.5 years, a semester less than completing both degrees separately. newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/berkeley-haas-…

In recent years, there has been a global surge in populist politics. What will be the economic consequences? Manuel Funke, Moritz Schularick & Christoph Trebesch on populist leaders and the economy: youtu.be/CtD0_cl2ZlA (Kiel Institute (IfW Kiel), ScPoEcon)

I'm teaching undergraduate urban and real estate economics this semester and I'm thinking I should devote an entire lecture to these two tweets

"It’s so nice to not be the crazy people in the room with the last session." The New York Times on environmental economics at the ASSA meetings. nyti.ms/4b8bcmY

Congratulations to Professor Nancy Wallace for receiving the 2024 John M. Quigley Award from the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association. ⁠ ⁠AREUEA bit.ly/49dtIbL

Is the economy good or bad? What happens next? On Feb. 8, our annual economic forecast featured Lanhee J. Chen Mauro F Guillen Nancy Wallace & Jared Woodard in conversation with Adam Lashinsky. Watch: youtu.be/w3I5F9qjHXQ?si… Underwritten by Bank of America. Photos by Ed Ritger

"They literally are not paying their mortgages." Nancy Wallace on the commercial real estate crisis in #SF, on PBS News. #CRE. bit.ly/49rFBv9

Congratulations to the two Berkeley teams--with students from Haas, CED, and the Goldman School of Public Policy--for reaching the finals of the 2024 HUD Innovation in Affordable Housing competition. huduser.gov/portal/challen…

"Then the neighbors found out." A case study of opposition to affordable #housing development, in The New York Times. nyti.ms/437gOdK

Ken Rosen to deliver his Real Estate Forecast at the upcoming 2024 Mayors' Economic Forecast event. The Business Journals bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/e…

Doom loops can be reversed. Barely a decade after Detroit declared bankruptcy, the city is emerging as America’s most unlikely real-estate boomtown wsj.com/real-estate/co… via The Wall Street Journal

Luxury home prices spike in Silicon Valley due to AI boom. "Home prices are very highly correlated with the tech industry", says Ken Rosen. yhoo.it/3yT15nB

Join us in New York for a Real Estate Happy Hour! applynow.haas.berkeley.edu/register/reale…

CAREALTORS: Nancy Wallace Fisher Center for Real Estate + Urban Economics: We need to work interdisciplinary with economists and physical sciences to build datasets to solve this issue. Having housing, climate, topographical and mortgage market data in one curated place will help in developing new modeling technol…

Nancy Wallace joined California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara and others on a panel to discuss the difficulties facing homeowners in the wake of major pullbacks by State Farm, Allstate and other insurers. bit.ly/3zXtCZA

Entirely a gift from the Helen Diller Foundation, Anchor House will provide transfer students with an anchor of support and a source of well-being and community. news.berkeley.edu/2024/07/29/int…

Using educational and employment data from LinkedIn for over 450 million workers, Berkeley-Haas professors Amir Kermani and Timothy McQuade and coauthor Naser Amanzadeh have tracked global migration patterns for work.

"New development just doesn't pencil" for workforce #housing. Ken Rosen in BisNow on Berkeley's higher-end #development boom. bit.ly/4dS3y0H

Join us on March 4th for "Property Insurance in an Era of Urban Wildfires." This one-hour webinar will feature an elite panel of experts on urban wildfires and property insurance including Nancy Wallace, Rex Frazier, and Jason Adams. register now at haas.berkeley.edu/realestate/con…

California is facing a perfect storm of economic uncertainty—housing shortages, rising costs, and shifting federal policies. UC Berkeley’s Nancy Wallace weighs in on what this means for our future. Read more here: rwcpulse.com/blogs/a-new-sh… #PublicPolicy #HousingCrisis