Newswise — The Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley can provide leading experts in the field of real estate, banking, finance, and the economy to address the news unfolding around the financial market turmoil and troubled US housing market.

A list of key experts follows below. Additional sources can be found on the Haas web site at http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/groups.html.

An online experts list will be available online by early next week at http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/news/sources.html.

Haas Real Estate, Banking, and Finance Experts:

BANKING/FINANCE/ECONOMY

Terrance Odean Willis H. Booth Chair in Banking and Finance IHaas Finance Group

http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/odean.htmlExpertise: Behavioral finance; individual investor finance; gender investment behaviorOdean on the crisis: "The various bailouts that have been announced and proposed could potentially cost the average family of four over $10,000, so let's not act rashly." " 9/24/08

Richard StantonProfessorHaas Finance Group

http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/stanton.htmlExpertise: Mortgage markets and techniques for hedging and pricing derivatives

James WilcoxKruttschnitt Family Professor of Financial InstitutionsHaas Economic Analysis and Policy GroupHaas Finance Group

http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/wilcox.htmlExpertise: Treasury's rescue plan; banking; Federal Reserve; monetary policy; interest rates; economy-wide unemployment and inflation.On the crisis: "The Treasury's rescue plan has already stopped the panic in credit markets, and the plan can get credit flowing to businesses and individuals, while presumably costing taxpayers very little. What we need to discuss is how the banks will be recapitalized by taxpayers and how much mortgage relief will be available to overburdened homeowners." " 9/24/08

HOUSING/REAL ESTATE

Ashok BardhanSenior Research Associate Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics

http://staff.haas.berkeley.edu/bardhan/Expertise: Subprime financial crisis; outsourcing of R&D and its impact on US jobs and economy

Thomas DavidoffAssistant ProfessorHaas Real Estate Group

http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/davidoff.htmlExpertise: Housing; home equity; real estate and urban economics

Robert EdelsteinProfessor, Haas Real Estate GroupCo-Chair, Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics

http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/edelstein.htmlExpertise: Subprime mortgage market and urban real estate economics

Cynthia KrollSenior Regional EconomistFisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics

http://staff.haas.berkeley.edu/kroll/Expertise: California economic trends and their implications for real estate development opportunities and land development issues.

Kenneth Rosen Co-Chair, Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics

http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/rosen.htmlExpertise: Economics of the housing and commercial real estate marketsMr. Rosen outlines specific solutions to four of the problems currently facing our financial and real estate markets. Go to http://groups.haas.berkeley.edu/realestate/Fisher/PAB/KRosenPR9-22-2008.pdf

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