Affiliated Faculty

Dwight M. Jaffee, Willis Booth Professor of Finance

Dwight M. Jaffee

Dwight M. Jaffee is the Booth Professor of Finance and Real Estate at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley where he has taught since 1991. At Haas, Jaffee previously served as Chairman of the Finance Group and currently serves as co-chairman of the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics. He received his Ph.D. in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He previously taught for many years in the Economics Department at Princeton University, where he served as Vice Chair.

Jafee is the author of 6 monographs and numberous economic journal articles. His research covers such diverse areas as globalization, real estate finance, and catastrophe insurance. His most recent work on globalization is Globalization and a High-Tech Economy: California, the US, and Beyond (Kluwer, 2003) [with Bardhan, Ashok and Cynthia Kroll]. His most recent work on real estate finance concerns the behavior of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the catastrophe insurance aspects of terrorism coverage.

Contact Information

Willis Booth Professor of Banking and Finance
Haas School of Business
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-1900
510-642-1273 telephone
510-643-7441 fascimile
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