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Todd Sinai serves as David B. Ford Professor and Professor of Real Estate and Business Economics and Public Policy at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he chairs the Real Estate Department. His academic career spans over two decades with progressive appointments from Assistant to Full Professor with tenure.
- PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997
- BA, Yale University, 1992
His research focuses on commercial real estate dynamics, housing market risk pricing, taxation effects, and public policy implications. Sinai examines how housing markets interact with broader economic forces, particularly investigating geographic price variations, mobility risks, and intergenerational wealth transmission. His work bridges theoretical economic models with empirical housing market analysis.
Recent publications reveal consistent focus on housing market heterogeneity, risk mitigation through homeownership, and policy impacts on real estate investment. His research demonstrates how geographic correlations in house prices affect mobility decisions and how superstar cities develop through supply constraints and demand shifts.
- Journal of Urban Economics Highly Cited Author Award, 2009
- Edwin S. Mills Best Paper Award, 2004
- HUD/AREUEA Best Paper Award, 2001
Sinai advises doctoral students like Andrew Paciorek while maintaining active research grants through his NBER affiliation. He teaches multiple real estate investment courses covering financial analysis, risk assessment, and capital markets. His professional leadership includes co-organizing NBER conferences and serving on editorial boards for leading urban economics journals.
As Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1999 and former Visiting Scholar at Federal Reserve Banks, Sinai operates within influential policy research networks focused on housing finance and urban economics.
