Dwight M. Jaffee

Dwight M. Jaffee has been Professor of Finance and Real Estate in the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley since 1991. He previously taught for many years in the Economics Department of Princeton University, where he served as Vice Chairman. He received his Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

At UC Berkeley, Professor Jaffee currently serves as co-chairman of the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics and as the Academic Director of the St. Petersburg University-UC Berkeley School of Management program. He often consults with the World Bank on its Technical Assistance to Russia program and is a co-author of a recent World Bank report on Russian housing markets. He is also currently a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

Jaffee is the author of three monographs and dozens of economic journal articles. His research covers such diverse areas as real estate finance, catastrophe insurance, the California economy, credit rationing and bank lending, and international housing finance systems.