Lu Han
Petro-Canada Associate Professor of Business Economics
CV in pdf
Research
Publication
- The Microstructure of Housing Markets:
Search, Bargaining and Brokerage (with Will Strange), forthcoming in Duranton, Henderson, and Strange (eds),
Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, Volume 5
- Understanding the Puzzling
Risk-Return Relationship for Housing (online
appendices), Review of Financial Studies, 2013, 26(4), 877-928.
- Bidding Wars for Houses (with Will Strange), Real Estate Economics,
2013, 41(3).
- A Spatial Look at Housing Boom and Bust Cycles (with David Genesove), forthcoming in Edward
Glaeser and Todd Sinai (eds.), Housing Markets and the Financial Crisis, University of Chicago Press
- Search and Matching in
the Housing Market (with David Genesove), Journal of Urban Economics,
2012, 72, 31-45.
- 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
- In-house Transactions in the Real Estate Brokerage Market: Matching Outcome or Strategic
Promotion? (with S.H. Hong)
- What is the Role of the Asking Price for a House? (with Will Strange)
- Measuring the Thinness of Real Estate Markets (with David Genesove), revision coming soon
Teaching
MBA Courses: Real Estate Investment; Real Estate EconomicsCommerce Courses: Market Strategy; Real Estate Markets; Real Estate Finance
Awards
2008-2013 Excellence in Teaching, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto2008 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 Professorship
2004-2005 Kapnick Fellow, Dissertation Fellowship, Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research