Richard K. Green

USC Lusk Center for Real Estate

Richard K. Green, Ph.D., is the Director of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate. He holds the
Lusk Chair in Real Estate and is a Professor at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy and
the Marshall School of Business.

Prior to joining the USC faculty, Dr. Green spent four years as the Oliver T. Carr, Jr., Chair of
Real Estate Finance at The George Washington University School of Business. He was Director
of the Center for Washington Area Studies and the Center for Real Estate and Urban Studies at
that institution. Dr. Green also taught real estate finance and economics courses for 12 years at
the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was Wangard Faculty Scholar and Chair of Real
Estate and Urban Land Economics. He also has been principal economist and director of
financial strategy and policy analysis at Freddie Mac. More recently, he was a visiting professor
of real estate at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, and he continues to retain an
affiliation with Wharton. He is or has been involved with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy,
the Conference of Business Economists, the Center for Urban Land Economics Research, and
the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties. Dr. Green also is a Weimer Fellow
at the Homer Hoyt Institute and a member of the faculty of the Selden Institute for Advanced
Studies in Real Estate. He was recently President of the American Real Estate and Urban
Economics Association.

Dr. Green earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He earned his A.B. in economics from Harvard University.

His research addresses housing markets, housing policy, tax policy, transportation, mortgage
finance and urban growth. He is a member of two academic journal editorial boards, and a
reviewer for several others. His work is published in a number of journals including the
American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Real Estate Finance
and Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Land Economics, Regional Science and Urban
Economics, Real Estate Economics, Housing Policy Debate, Journal of Housing Economics, and
Urban Studies. His book with Stephen Malpezzi, A Primer on U.S. Housing Markets and
Housing Policy, is used at universities throughout the country. His work has been cited or he has
been quoted in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, the
Christian Science Monitor, the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek and the Economist, as well as
other outlets. He recently gave a presentation at the 31st annual Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas
City Economic Symposium, where his work was cited by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben
Bernanke. The National Association of REALTORS, the Ford Foundation, and the Lincoln
Institute for Land Policy have funded grants to support some of Dr. Green’s research. He
consults for the World Bank.

In 1995, Dr. Green was honored as “Teacher of the Year” by the University of Wisconsin
Graduate Business Association, and soon thereafter was inducted into that University’s Teaching
Academy.