Lu Han

Petro-Canada Junior Professor of Business Economics


CV in pdf


Research


Recent Publication

- Search and Matching in the Housing Market (with David Genesove), Journal of Urban Economics, forthcoming.
- Testing Cost Inefficiency under Free Entry in the Real Estate Brokerage Industry (with Seung-Hyun Hong) (online appendices), Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2011, 29(4), 564-578.
- The Effects of Price Uncertainty on Housing Demand: Empirical Evidence from the U.S. Markets, Review of Financial Studies, 2010, 23(11) (lead article), 3889-3928.
- Hedging House Price Risk in the Presence of Lumpy Transaction Cost, Journal of Urban Economics, 2008, 64(2), 270-287.

Working Paper

- Understanding Puzzling Risk-Return Relationship for Housing (online appendices)
- A Spatial Look at Housing Boom and Bust Cycles (with David Genesove)
- Bidding Wars for Houses (with Will Strange)
- Measuring the Thinness of Real Estate Markets (with David Genesove)

Teaching

MGT 414H1S: Business of Real Estate
MGT 482H1S: Market Strategies
MGT 416H1S: Real Estate Markets
MGT 2116: Real Estate Investment

Awards

2008-2011 Excellence in Teaching, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
2008 Best Paper Award at the 13th Asian Real Estate Society Annual Meeting and International Conference
2006 Best Dissertation Award, Homer Hoyt Institute and American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association
2005-present Petro-Canada Junior Professorship
2004-2005 Kapnick Fellow, Dissertation Fellowship, Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research