Thomas G. Thibodeau is an American real estate scholar. He is professor of global real estate capital markets at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

Education and career

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Thibodeau graduated from the University of Hartford in 1975 with a dual degree in mathematics and management science. He received an M.S. degree in statistics in 1979 and a Ph.D. in economics in 1980 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. In 1982 he was a staff consultant for President Ronald Reagan's Commission on Housing.[1]

He worked as a research associate in the Housing Division of The Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. He then joined the real estate faculty at the Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University[2] and was a visiting professor of real estate at the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania, and a visiting scholar at the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank. He is now the Global Real Estate Capital Markets Professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

Thibodeau’s research has focused on housing economics, particularly the analysis of market forces affecting house prices,[3] house price risk,[4] and development of house price indices.[5]

Thibodeau was the managing editor of Real Estate Economics in 2000 and 2005.[6] He is a past President of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA) and is a Fellow of the Homer Hoyt Advanced Studies Institute. He serves as the Academic Director of the University of Colorado Real Estate Center (CUREC).[7]

Awards

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  • 2008 - American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA) George Bloom Award for “outstanding contributions to the field of real estate.”[8]
  • 2009 - National Association of Industrial Office Properties (NAIOP) Research Foundation Governors NAIOP Distinguished Fellow.

References

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  1. ^ "The report of the President's Commission on Housing" (PDF). www.huduser.gov.
  2. ^ Thibodeau, Thomas G. (1989). "Housing Price Indexes from the 1974–1983 SIMSA Annual Housing Surveys". Real Estate Economics. 17 (1): 100–117. doi:10.1111/1540-6229.00476. ISSN 1540-6229.
  3. ^ Basu, Sabyasachi, and Thomas G. Thibodeau. "Analysis of spatial autocorrelation in house prices." The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics 17, no. 1 (1998): 61-85
  4. ^ Peng, Liang, and Thomas G. Thibodeau. "Idiosyncratic risk of house prices: Evidence from 26 million home sales." Real Estate Economics 45, no. 2 (2017): 340-375.
  5. ^ Thibodeau, Thomas G. "House price indices from the 1984–1992 MSA American Housing Surveys." Journal of Housing Research (1995): 439-481
  6. ^ Geltner, David; Ling, David C.; Thibodeau, Thomas G. (2002-03-22). "Authors' Perceptions and Preferences among Real Estate Journals: An Editors' Note". Real Estate Economics. 30 (1): 159. doi:10.1111/1540-6229.00034. ISSN 1080-8620.
  7. ^ Rebchook, John. "Thibodeau Hired at University of Colorado". GlobeSt. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
  8. ^ "AREUEA: George Bloom Service Award". www.areuea.org. Retrieved 2020-07-07.