Susan M. Wachter

Richard B. Worley Professor of Financial Management; Professor of Real Estate, Finance and City and Regional Planning
Urban Spatial Analytics

http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/faculty/wachter.html

Biography

B.A., Harvard College
Ph.D., Boston College

Work/Research

Research Areas
Real estate economics; urban economics; housing finance

Current Projects
Modeling default and delinquency; tenure choice and homeownership affordability; real estate price index methodologies; modeling neighborhood change

Publications

Representative Publications
(with Andrey Pavlov)
"Mortgage Put Options and Real Estate Markets." Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics (Forthcoming 2008).

(with Andrey Pavlov)
"The Inevitability of Market-Wide Underpriced Risk." Real Estate Economics Vol. 34, No. 4 (2006).

(with Richard Green)
"The American Mortgage in Historical and International Context." Journal of Economic Perspectives Vol. 19, No. 4 (2005).