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Jiro Yoshida maintains a website that displays the CPI rental index along with a better, real time, rental index (discussed in our 2022 JMCB paper).  The CPI index is too sticky, and lags the actual rental inflation rate.  This is not good for the proper implementation of monetary policy,   See the data here:
  • The Marginal Rent Index
  • ​The ZIllow Rent Index for 15 CA counties

Paul Krugman's  monograph Geography and Trade is rightly considered a classic.  But the diagrams in Chapter 1 are printed and proofed very poorly, and actually lead the author and reader into error.  Properly formatted diagrams are provided here.
  • A Discussion of the Diagrams in Krugman Geography and Trade, Chapter 1

Originally written in 1979.  Tinkered with many times since.
  • The Economist's Ode to Spring

Some people expressed an interest in the slides from my 2017 AREUEA Presidential Address.  Single family rental has certainly taken off since then.
  • The Single Family Rental Market

Cliff Lipscomb kindly asked me to write a foreword for his co-authored book Real Estate Analysis in the Information Age.  I kind of like how it came out so I am putting it here.  I don't think anyone will mind.  
reword to Real Estate Analysis in the Information Age
  • ​Foreword to Real Estate Analysis in the Information Age

I was on Jeopardy!  I even won twice.  It was so fun!  You should try out.   The Final Jeopardy bits are on Youtube:
  • July 25, 2022
  • July 26, 2022
  • July 27, 2022 (Still peeved at both me and the question itself!)

​​My son, Brendan, and my wife, Linda, and I, wrote a novel that sets a detective story within the (probably apocryphal) encounter between the Chinese Imperial Navy and the Meso-American Tarascan Empire in the 15th Century.  It was fun to write.  Here's the webpage for the book, which contains links to purchase. We will sign your copy!
  • The Casebook of Qing and Xmucane: Being the accounts of the collaboration between an young Chinese naval officer and an elderly, very perceptive Meso-American woman as they encounter mysteries and adventures.  



































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