Austin Jaffe Gives Presentations On Property Rights

Dr. Austin Jaffe, the Philip H. Sieg Professor of Business Administration in the Penn State Smeal College of Business, recently gave two presentations in Helsinki, Finland: "How Traditional Property Analysis Fails Us and The Rise of Modern Real Estate Finance" at Skanska Oy, and "Some Subtleties of Real Estate Securitization" at the Centre for Real Estate Finance and Investment. The presentations took place in May 2002, while Jaffe was the Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration.

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA--Dr. Austin Jaffe, the Philip H. Sieg Professor of Business Administration in the Penn State Smeal College of Business, recently gave two presentations in Helsinki, Finland: "How Traditional Property Analysis Fails Us and The Rise of Modern Real Estate Finance" at Skanska Oy, and "Some Subtleties of Real Estate Securitization" at the Centre for Real Estate Finance and Investment. The presentations took place in May 2002, while Jaffe was the Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration.

In addition, he was interviewed by Radio Free Europe In Prague on the topic of restitution of property rights in Eastern Europe.

Jaffe is recognized as a real estate authority throughout the world and has appeared on programs to give papers at more than 100 institutions in more than 30 countries. He also served as a consultant to The World Bank, Nordic Council of Ministers, Prudential Realty Group, Eastern European Real Property Foundation, Real Estate Research Institute, and others. He has held faculty appointments at several international universities in Sweden, the Netherlands, Israel, Singapore, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Thailand.

He is the author or co-author of thirteen books including Fundamentals of Real Estate Investment and Property Rights and has published over 75 articles in academic and professional journals. He is a member of several editorial review boards in the United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, and Hong Kong. He was the 1994 President of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association.

Editors: For more information on Dr. Jaffe, contact him at 814-865-1938 or ajj@psu.edu .

REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu.

Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, management and organization, marketing, risk management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.

Austin Jaffe Gives Presentations On Property Rights

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