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Editor: David Reiss
Cornell Law School

December 23, 2015

Wednesday’s Academic Roundup

By Shea Cunningham

Real Estate Price Indices and Price Dynamics: An Overview from an Investment Perspective, David Geltner, Annual Review of Financial Economics, Vol .7, pp. 615–633, 2015. Migration and Housing Price Effects of Place-Based College Scholarships, Timothy J. Bartik & Nathan Sotherland, … Continue reading

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December 16, 2015

Wednesday’s Academic Roundup

By Shea Cunningham

The Liquidity Crisis, Investor Sentiment, and REIT Returns and Volatility, Daniel Huerta, Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management, Forthcoming. Counting Casualties in Communities Hit Hardest by the Foreclosure Crisis, Matthew J. Rossman, Utah Law Review (2016 Forthcoming). Climate Change and … Continue reading

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December 2, 2015

Wednesday’s Academic Roundup

By Shea Cunningham

Inflation and Activity – Two Explorations and Their Monetary Policy Implications, Olivier J. Blanchard, Eugenio Cerutti & Lawrence H. Summers, HKS Working Paper No. 070. Real Estate Value Impacts from Fracking: Industry Response and Proper Analytical Techniques, Richard Roddewig & … Continue reading

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November 30, 2015

Monday’s Adjudication Roundup

By Shea Cunningham

BNY Mellon files a brief on writ for cert with the Supreme Court warning the potential for “warping” the residential mortgage-backed securities market if it overturns the Second Circuit’s decision finding that provisions of the Trust Indenture Act did not … Continue reading

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October 21, 2015

Buy-To-Rent Investing

By David Reiss

James Mills, Raven Molloy and Rebecca Zarutskie have posted Large-Scale Buy-to-Rent Investors in the Single-Family Housing Market: The Emergence of a New Asset Class? to SSRN. The abstract reads, In 2012, several large firms began purchasing single-family homes with the … Continue reading

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