[bio] Dwight M. Jaffee is the Booth Professor of Finance and Real Estate at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1991. At UC Berkeley, Professor Jaffee previously served as Chairman of the Finance Group and currently serves as co-chairman of the FisherCenter for Real Estate and Urban Economics. He received his Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.He previously taught for many years in the Economics Department of Princeton University, where he served as Vice Chairman.
Jaffee is the author of 6 monographs and numerous economic journal articles. His research covers such diverse areas as globalization, real estate finance, and catastrophe insurance. His most recent work on globalization is the co-authored book Globalization and a High-Tech Economy: California, the US, and Beyond (Kluwer, 2003).His most recent research on real estate finance concerns the behavior of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and on catastrophe insurance concerns terrorism insurance. |
