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Research Seminar Series

2024 Fall Research Seminars

Speaker Affiliation Title Date/Time Venue Host
Dr. Eva Steiner (external link)  Professor of Real Estate, Penn State University TBD

11/13/2024

11:00 am

Virtual Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca

2025 Winter Research Seminars

Speaker Affiliation Title Date/Time Venue Host

Dr. Minjee Kim (external link) 

Assisstant Professor, Luskin School of Public Affairs  UCLA

TBA

02/12/2025

11:00 am

Virtual

Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca

Aiden Li PhD Student, Real Estate Management, Toronto Metropolitan University TBA 03/26/2025 11:00 am Virtual Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca
Dr. Zoe Yang (external link)  Assistant Professor of Real Estate, School of Hotel and Tourism Management
CUHK Business School
TBA 04/09/2025 Virtual Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca

2024 Winter Research Seminars

Speaker Affiliation Title Date/Time Venue Host

Dr. Dawn Parker (external link) 

Professor, University of Waterloo - School of Planning

Understanding the effects of market volatility on profitability perceptions of housing market developers

01/24/2024

11:00 am

Virtual

Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca

Meet Shah (external link, opens in new window) 

PhD Student, Real Estate Management, Toronto Metropolitan University

The Effect of COVID-19 on Condominium Price Near Subway Stations: A Case Study of Toronto

02/07/2024

11:00 am

Virtual

Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca

Dr. Erkan Yonder (external link, opens in new window) 

Associate Professor, Finance, Concordia University

Adaptation in Financial Markets: Climate Diversification Through Securitization

03/06/2024

11:00 am

Hybrid

kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca

Sedat Ogeturk

 

PhD Student, Real Estate Management, Toronto Metropolitan University

Exploring Operational Efficiency and Valuation of Canadian Real Estate Investment Trusts (C-REITs)

04/03/2024

11:00 am

Virtual

Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca

Fall research seminars

Speaker Affiliation Title Date/Time Venue Host
Dr. Masaki Mori (external link, opens in new window) 

Associate Professor, Real Estate Finance, EHL Hospitality Business School

 (PDF file) The effect of board gender diversity on firm performance, risk, and risk management strategy: A new evidence from US Real Estate Investment Trust (opens in new window) 

09/20/2023

11:00 am

Virtual

sogeturk@torontomu.ca

Dr. Alex Van De Minne (external link, opens in new window) 

Assistant Professor, Finance and Real Estate, University of Connecticut 

 

Commercial Real Estate and Air Pollution

10/04/2023

11:00 am

Virtual

kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca

Dr. Soon Hyeok Choi (external link, opens in new window) 

Assistant Professor, Hospitality Management Department, Rochester Institute of Technology

Pricing the Upside Potential to Downside Risk

11/22/2023

11:00 am

Virtual

meet2.shah@torontomu.ca

Winter research seminars

Speaker Affiliation Title Date/Time Venue Host
Dr. Bing Zhu (external link, opens in new window)  Professor Real Estate Development Technical University of Munich (external link, opens in new window)  Natural Hazard Exposure and REIT Equity Risk

01/25/2023

11:00 a.m.

Virtual sogeturk@torontomu.ca

Dr. Marc Francke (external link, opens in new window) 

professor Real Estate Analytics, Amsterdam Business School  Do Investors Crowd Out Home Buyers?
Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Dutch Reform

02/08/2023

11 a.m.

Virtual Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca
Dr. Chongyu Wang (external link, opens in new window)  Assistant Professor, Real Estate Finance, University of Hong Kong  (PDF file) Granular Property Shocks and Commercial Real Estate Returns (opens in new window) 

02/22/2023

9 a.m.

Virtual sogeturk@torontomu.ca

Dr. Carolin Schmidth (external link, opens in new window) 

Senior Teaching Associate in Real Estate Finance and Economics, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge

Age at Arrival and Immigrants' Housing Tenure: Evidence from the UK (external link, opens in new window) 

03/08/2023

11 a.m.

Virtual

Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca (opens in new window) 

Dr. Sitian Liu

Assistant Professor, Economics Department, Queen’s University

The Effect of Working from Home on the Agglomeration Economies of Cities: Evidence from Advertised Wages

03/22/2023

11 a.m.

Virtual

Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca

Fall research seminars

Speaker Affiliation Title Date/Time Venue Host

Dr. Brent W. Ambrose (external link) 

Professor of Real Estate, Smeal College of Business, PennState

 

Do Appraiser and Borrower Race Affect Valuation? (external link, opens in new window) 

10/05/2022

11 a.m.

Virtual

Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca

Dr. Gianluca Marcato (external link) 

Professor of Finance and Real Estate, Henley Business School, University of Reading

Mortgage Strategic Default and Household Portfolio Composition

11/02/2022

11 a.m.

Virtual

Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca

Dr. Thomas Davidoff (external link) 

Associate Professor, Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, UBC

Interest accumulation in reverse mortgage loans with termination moral hazard

11/16/2022

11: a.m.

Virtual

Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca

Dr. Sing Tien Foo (external link, opens in new window)  Provost’s Chair Professor, Department of Real Estate, National University of Singapore Redevelopment Values in Multi-Family Properties: Evidence from En bloc Sales in Singapore

11/30/2022

10:00 a.m.

Virtual Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca

Winter research seminars

Speaker Affiliation Title Date/Time Venue Host

Dr. Desmond Tsang

Associate Professor, Accounting, McGill University

Corporate Relocation and Housing Market Spillover

01/17/2022

9:00 a.m.

Virtual Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca

Dr. Edward Coulson (external link, opens in new window) 

Professor, Economics and Public Policy, Center for Real Estate, Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine  (PDF file) Distressed Comps (opens in new window) 

 (PDF file) An Alternative Approach to Estimating Foreclosure and Short Sale Discounts (opens in new window) 

01/28/2022

3:00 p.m.

Virtual Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca
Dr. Yildiray Yildirim (external link, opens in new window)  Professor, Real Estate Finance, Baruch College, CUNY, New York  (PDF file) Deep Learning for Disentangling Liquidity-Constrained and Strategic Default (opens in new window) 

02/11/2022

3:00 p.m.

Virtual Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca

Dr. Ted Rutland (external link, opens in new window) 

Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University Nowhereland: Race and tenants rights

03/11/2022

3:00 p.m.

Virtual Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca
Jean-Philippe Deschamps-Laporte (external link, opens in new window)  Chief at Statistics Canada Canadian Housing Statistics Program – New developments and opportunities for researchers

03/25/2022

3:00 p.m.

Virtual

Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca

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