Published: September 25, 2008

Leading Finance and Real Estate Experts at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business

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Newswise - The Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley can provide leading experts in the field of real estate, banking, finance, and the economy to address the news unfolding around the financial market turmoil and troubled US housing market.

http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/groups.html.

Haas Real Estate, Banking, and Finance Experts:

BANKING/FINANCE/ECONOMY

Haas Finance Group

Odean on the crisis: "The various bailouts that have been announced and proposed could potentially cost the average family of four over $10,000, so let's not act rashly." - 9/24/08

Haas Finance Group

Expertise: Mortgage markets and techniques for hedging and pricing derivatives

Haas Finance Group

On the crisis: "The Treasury's rescue plan has already stopped the panic in credit markets, and the plan can get credit flowing to businesses and individuals, while presumably costing taxpayers very little. What we need to discuss is how the banks will be recapitalized by taxpayers and how much mortgage relief will be available to overburdened homeowners." - 9/24/08

HOUSING/REAL ESTATE

Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics

Expertise: Subprime financial crisis; outsourcing of R&D and its impact on US jobs and economy

Haas Real Estate Group

Expertise: Housing; home equity; real estate and urban economics

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

Expertise: Subprime mortgage market and urban real estate economics

Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics

Expertise: California economic trends and their implications for real estate development opportunities and land development issues.

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

Source: University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business