UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Wenlan Qian, Ng Teng Fong Chair Professor in Real Estate and professor at the National University of Singapore, will deliver the third annual Austin J. Jaffe Real Estate Lecture at 1:30 p.m. on Nov. 30 in 122 Business Building.
“We are very excited to hold the first international spreaker in the Austin Jaffe Memorial Lecture, which was created in 2020 to honor the memory of my colleague and good friend, Austin Jaffe,” said Brent Ambrose, Jason and Julie Borrelli Faculty Chair in Real Estate and director of Smeal’s Institute for Real Estate Studies.
“The Austin Jaffe Real Estate Lecture series is sponsored by the generous gift from Austin’s wife Lynn, children Alex and Roxanne, and Austin’s friends. This year, we are honored to have Wenlan Qian from the National University of Singapore share her insights on household finance.”
The title of Qian’s lecture is “Unintended Consequences of Demand-side Housing Policies: Evidence from Household Reallocation of Capital.”
Qian is the co-editor of Real Estate Economics, the premier real estate academic journal, a fellow at the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economics Research, a fellow of the Luohan Academy at Alibaba Group, and a fellow of the Homer Hoyt Weimer School of Advanced Studies in Real Estate and Land Economics. Her lecture will navigate a paper she co-authored titled, "Urban Growth and its Aggregate Implications," which develops an urban growth model at the intersection of urbanization and economics in heterogenous cities.
Qian joined NUS in 2008 after receiving her doctorate in finance and real estate from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
The lecture series honors the late Austin Jaffe, who was the Philip H. Sieg Professor of Business Administration at the Smeal College of Business and served as the associate dean for international programs, the associate director of the Institute for Real Estate Studies, and chair of the Department of Risk Management before retiring after nearly 40 years at Penn State. Jaffe passed away in May 2019.
As a frontrunner in real estate studies, Jaffe’s legacy lives on in the lecture series — which brings renowned real estate scholars to Penn State to share their knowledge and navigate industry topics with students.
The annual event, which was made possible with the Jaffe family’s endowment, kicked off in 2021 with speaker Abdullah Yavas, Robert E. Wangard Real Estate Chair at the University of Wisconsin School of Business.