Finance

Article May 2, 2022 Five Steps for Financing Urban Adaptation to Climate Change Eugénie L. Birch and Mauricio Rodas report on a five-step roadmap for financing urban adaptation to climate change . Eugénie L. Birch Mauricio Rodas Climate Change & Resilience State & Local Finance
Article April 27, 2022 Faculty Spotlight: Jessie Handbury Jessie Handbury is Assistant Professor of Real Estate at The Wharton School, NBER Research Fellow, and Penn IUR Faculty Fellow. Her work focuses on the spatial distribution of consumption amenities: the goods and services that are available to consumers in different neighborhoods (e.g., the mix of restaurants, retail, nightlife, public services, neighborhood aesthetics, etc.). State & Local Finance
Apr 21 2022 Past Event Special Briefing on Inflation and Recession Risks for States and Cities State & Local Finance
Article March 30, 2022 Wachter Receives Quigley Medal Susan Wachter won AREUEA's 2022 John M. Quigley Medal for Advancing Real Estate and Urban Economics. Susan Wachter State & Local Finance
Faculty Fellow Benjamin Keys
Rowan Family Foundation Professor of Real Estate and Finance, The Wharton School
State & Local Finance
Article November 17, 2021 Penn IUR's Research for South Korea Penn IUR is working with the Urban Sustainability Laboratory at the Washington-based Wilson Center, a convenor of comparative research with U.S and South Korean scholars and practitioners involving the Housing and Urban Guarantee Corporation (HUG) and the Land and Housing Institute (LHI) of South Korea. Housing Urban Development
Nov 04 2021 Past Event Penn IUR Book Talk With Dr. Judith Rodin: Making Money Moral State & Local Finance
Research Paper October 20, 2021 The COVID-19 Recession: Which Urban Economies Have Performed Better or Worse and Why John Landis State & Local Finance
Research Paper October 20, 2021 #GalápagosGoesGreen: Galápagos Green Mobility Strategy Eugénie L. Birch Climate Change & Resilience State & Local Finance
Oct 12 2021 Past Event Community College: Who Should Pay?
Advisory Board Member Lawrence Parks
CEO and Co-Founder, Forethought Advisors
State & Local Finance
Research Paper July 13, 2021 5th Guangzhou Award Report on Local Implementation of SDGs Climate Change & Resilience Housing + 1
Research Paper June 16, 2021 September 2020 U20 Summit White Papers and Reports Penn IUR, the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, and Perry World House serve as knowledge partners for the U20 Engagement Group to the G20. For the U20 Summit (September 2020), they produced the white papers and reports that fed into the U20 Communique delivered to the G20. Mark Alan Hughes Eugénie L. Birch Mauricio Rodas Climate Change & Resilience State & Local Finance
Article May 19, 2021 Housing Search and Rental Market Intermediation Housing State & Local Finance
Article May 19, 2021 Essays in Urban and Public Economics State & Local Finance
Article March 24, 2021 Mortgage Securitization in the Era of COVID-19 A set of papers edited by Urban Institute Vice President Laurie Goodman and Penn IUR Co-Director Susan Wachter and recently published in Housing Policy Debate reflects on strategies to maintain and advance the reforms that have strengthened the GSEs. The peer-reviewed articles address both the current and future performance of the GSEs along several themes. Housing State & Local Finance
Article February 11, 2021 Economic Outlook for 2021 Mark Zandi, Chief Economist at Moody's Analytics and Penn IUR Fellow, offered his forecast for the year ahead at a recent webinar on state and local fiscal stability hosted by Penn IUR and the Volcker Alliance. Mark Zandi State & Local Finance
Jan 14 2021 Past Event Special Briefing: The Year Ahead for States and Municipalities State & Local Finance
Research Paper December 21, 2020 Mortgage Securitization in the Covid-19 Era: Commentary (Levi) Gerron S. Levi Housing State & Local Finance
Research Paper December 21, 2020 Mortgage Securitization in the Covid-19 Era: Commentary (Layton) Don Layton Housing State & Local Finance

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