Research Seminar Series

2025 Fall Research Seminars

Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Date/Time	Venue	Host
Dr. Eduardo Souza Rodrigues (external link, opens in new window)	Professor, Economics Department, University of Toronto	Cows and Trees	09/23/2025 1:30 p.m.	Hybrid (TRS 3-066)	Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca
Dr. Song Shi (external link, opens in new window)	Associate professor, property economic, University of Technology Sydney (UTS)	Housing affordability in the renewable energy transition: Evidence from the domestic rooftop solar panel uptake in Sydney, Australia	11/18/2025 5 p.m.	Virtual	Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca
Martine August (external link)	Associate Professor, School of Planning, University of Waterloo	Financialization of rental housing, rising rents, and evictions in Toronto	11/19/2025 10 a.m.	Hybrid (TRS 3-066)	Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca

2026 Winter Research Seminars

Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Date/Time	Venue	Host
TBA			01/21/2026 11 a.m.	Virtual	Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca
TBA			02/25/2026 11 a.m.	Virtual	Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca
Dr. Paula Margaretic (external link, opens in new window)	Assistant Professor, Finance Department, University of Chile	TBA	03/04/2026 11 a.m.	Virtual	Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca

2024 - 2025 Research Seminars

2025 Winter Research Seminars

Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Date/Time	Venue	Host
Dr. Minjee Kim (external link, opens in new window)	Assistant Professor, Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA	Upzoning and Gentrification in New York City (external link, opens in new window)	02/12/2025 10:30 a.m.	Virtual	Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca
Dr. Walter D’Lima (external link, opens in new window)	Assistant Professor, Tibor and Sheila Hollo School of Real Estate, Florida International University	Housing Market Externalities of Startup Success	03/05/2025 11:00 a.m.	Virtual	Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca
Aiden Li	PhD Student, Real Estate Management, Toronto Metropolitan University	TBA	TBD	Virtual	Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca
Dr. Zoe Yang (external link, opens in new window)	Assistant Professor of Real Estate, School of Hotel and Tourism Management CUHK Business School	TBA	04/09/2025	Virtual	Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca

2024 Fall Research Seminars

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

Date/Time

Venue

Host

Dr. Eva Steiner

Professor of Real Estate, Penn State University

The Biodiversity Protection Discount

11/13/2024

11:00 a.m.

Virtual

Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca

2023 - 2024 Research Seminars

2024 Winter Research Seminars

Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Date/Time	Venue	Host
Dr. Dawn Parker (external link)	Professor, University of Waterloo - School of Planning	Understanding the effects of market volatility on profitability perceptions of housing market developers	01/24/2024 11:00 a.m.	Virtual	Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca
Meet Shah (external link, opens in new window)	PhD Student, Real Estate Management, Toronto Metropolitan University	The Effect of COVID-19 on Condominium Price Near Subway Stations: A Case Study of Toronto	02/07/2024 11:00 a.m.	Virtual	Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca
Dr. Erkan Yonder (external link, opens in new window)	Associate Professor, Finance, Concordia University	Adaptation in Financial Markets: Climate Diversification Through Securitization	03/06/2024 11:00 a.m.	Hybrid	kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca
Sedat Ogeturk	PhD Student, Real Estate Management, Toronto Metropolitan University	Exploring Operational Efficiency and Valuation of Canadian Real Estate Investment Trusts (C-REITs)	04/03/2024 11:00 a.m.	Virtual	Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca

2023 Fall research seminars

Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Date/Time	Venue	Host
Dr. Masaki Mori (external link, opens in new window)	Associate Professor, Real Estate Finance, EHL Hospitality Business School	(PDF file) The effect of board gender diversity on firm performance, risk, and risk management strategy: A new evidence from US Real Estate Investment Trust (opens in new window)	09/20/2023 11:00 am	Virtual	sogeturk@torontomu.ca
Dr. Alex Van De Minne (external link, opens in new window)	Assistant Professor, Finance and Real Estate, University of Connecticut	Commercial Real Estate and Air Pollution	10/04/2023 11:00 am	Virtual	kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca
Dr. Soon Hyeok Choi (external link, opens in new window)	Assistant Professor, Hospitality Management Department, Rochester Institute of Technology	Pricing the Upside Potential to Downside Risk	11/22/2023 11:00 am	Virtual	meet2.shah@torontomu.ca

Winter research seminars

Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Date/Time	Venue	Host
Dr. Bing Zhu (external link, opens in new window)	Professor Real Estate Development Technical University of Munich (external link, opens in new window)	Natural Hazard Exposure and REIT Equity Risk	01/25/2023 11:00 a.m.	Virtual	sogeturk@torontomu.ca
Dr. Marc Francke (external link, opens in new window)	professor Real Estate Analytics, Amsterdam Business School	Do Investors Crowd Out Home Buyers? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Dutch Reform	02/08/2023 11 a.m.	Virtual	Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca
Dr. Chongyu Wang (external link, opens in new window)	Assistant Professor, Real Estate Finance, University of Hong Kong	(PDF file) Granular Property Shocks and Commercial Real Estate Returns (opens in new window)	02/22/2023 9 a.m.	Virtual	sogeturk@torontomu.ca
Dr. Carolin Schmidth (external link, opens in new window)	Senior Teaching Associate in Real Estate Finance and Economics, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge	Age at Arrival and Immigrants' Housing Tenure: Evidence from the UK (external link, opens in new window)	03/08/2023 11 a.m.	Virtual	Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca (opens in new window)
Dr. Sitian Liu	Assistant Professor, Economics Department, Queen’s University	The Effect of Working from Home on the Agglomeration Economies of Cities: Evidence from Advertised Wages	03/22/2023 11 a.m.	Virtual	Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca

2022 Research Seminars

Fall research seminars

Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Date/Time	Venue	Host
Dr. Brent W. Ambrose (external link)	Professor of Real Estate, Smeal College of Business, PennState	Do Appraiser and Borrower Race Affect Valuation? (external link, opens in new window)	10/05/2022 11 a.m.	Virtual	Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca
Dr. Gianluca Marcato (external link)	Professor of Finance and Real Estate, Henley Business School, University of Reading	Mortgage Strategic Default and Household Portfolio Composition	11/02/2022 11 a.m.	Virtual	Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca
Dr. Thomas Davidoff (external link)	Associate Professor, Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, UBC	Interest accumulation in reverse mortgage loans with termination moral hazard	11/16/2022 11: a.m.	Virtual	Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca
Dr. Sing Tien Foo (external link, opens in new window)	Provost’s Chair Professor, Department of Real Estate, National University of Singapore	Redevelopment Values in Multi-Family Properties: Evidence from En bloc Sales in Singapore	11/30/2022 10:00 a.m.	Virtual	Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca

Winter research seminars

Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Date/Time	Venue	Host
Dr. Desmond Tsang	Associate Professor, Accounting, McGill University	Corporate Relocation and Housing Market Spillover	01/17/2022 9:00 a.m.	Virtual	Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca
Dr. Edward Coulson (external link, opens in new window)	Professor, Economics and Public Policy, Center for Real Estate, Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine	(PDF file) Distressed Comps (opens in new window) (PDF file) An Alternative Approach to Estimating Foreclosure and Short Sale Discounts (opens in new window)	01/28/2022 3:00 p.m.	Virtual	Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca
Dr. Yildiray Yildirim (external link, opens in new window)	Professor, Real Estate Finance, Baruch College, CUNY, New York	(PDF file) Deep Learning for Disentangling Liquidity-Constrained and Strategic Default (opens in new window)	02/11/2022 3:00 p.m.	Virtual	Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca
Dr. Ted Rutland (external link, opens in new window)	Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University	Nowhereland: Race and tenants rights	03/11/2022 3:00 p.m.	Virtual	Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca
Jean-Philippe Deschamps-Laporte (external link, opens in new window)	Chief at Statistics Canada	Canadian Housing Statistics Program – New developments and opportunities for researchers	03/25/2022 3:00 p.m.	Virtual	Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca

2021 Research Seminars

Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Date/Time	Venue	Host
Dr. Amine Ouazad (external link)	Associate Professor, Applied Economics, HEC Montreal	Mortgage Finance and Climate Change: Securitization Dynamics in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters (external link, opens in new window)	09/24/2021 3:00 p.m.	Virtual	Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca
Dr. Dragana Cvijanovic (external link, opens in new window)	Associate Professor, Applied Economics and Policy, Cornell University	Opioid Crisis and Real Estate Prices (external link, opens in new window)	10/22/2021 3:00 p.m.	Virtual	Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca
Dr. Andrey Pavlov (external link, opens in new window)	Professor, Finance, Simon Fraser University	Not in my neighbour’s back yard? Laneway homes and neighbours’ property values (external link, opens in new window)	11/05/2021 3:00 p.m.	Virtual	Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca
Dr. Shaun Bond (external link, opens in new window)	Professor, Finance, Queensland University	(PDF file) Do Institutional Investors Trade on Mispricing? Evidence from Real Estate Markets (external link, opens in new window)	11/19/2021 3:00 p.m.	Virtual	Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca
Dr. Lu Han	Professor, Real Estate and Urban Economics, Wisconsin-Madison	To Own or to Rent? The Effects of Transaction Taxes on Housing Markets	12/03/2021 3:00 p.m.	Virtual	Kiana.basiri@torontomu.ca