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