Research

Research Briefs

The Lusk Center publishes research briefs on an approximate monthly schedule over the course of the academic year. The briefs provide condensed presentation of USC scholarly research in real estate and are oriented to the professional, academic, and policy communities. Individual copies of recent research briefs are available in printed form on this web site. The Lusk Center research briefs are disseminated widely among the real estate academic and professional communities.

2008

• Has the Homeownership Rate Been Inflated? The Effect of Falling Household Formation View Brief (PDF)
• Leaving Gateway Metropolitan Areas in the United States: Immigrants and the Housing Market View Brief (PDF)

2007

• Commercial Mortgage Workout Strategy and Conditional Default Probability: Evidence from Special-Serviced CMBS Loans View Brief (PDF)

2006

• The Termination of Mortgage Contracts through Prepayment and Default in the Commercial Mortgage Markets
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• London's Early Shopping Malls 1570-1700
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2005

• Winter 2004, The Impact of CRA Agreements on Community Banks
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2004

• Preliminary Results on the Effectiveness of State Enterprise Zones
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• Spring 2004, Research Compendium
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• Fall 2004, Warren Buffett's Call to Overhaul Prop 13: Some Preliminary Analyses
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• Fall 2004, Commuting Trends in U.S. Cities in the 1990's
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• Winter 2004, The Impact of CRA Agreements on Community Banks
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• Winter 2004, Mobility, Residential Location, and the American Dream
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• Winter 2004, Neighborhood: A Key Concept for Development and Planning
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2003

• Spring 2003, The Impact Of Urban Growth Boundaries On Future Urbanization
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• Spring 2003, Enhancing mortgage credit availability among underserved and higher credit-risk populations: An assessment of default and prepayment option exercise among FHA-Insured Borrowers.
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• Spring 2003, Intra-Metropolitan mobility, residential location, and home ownership choice among minority and white households: Estimates of a nested multinomial logit model.
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2002

• Fall 2002, Do CRA agreements influence lending patterns?
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• Fall 2002, Heterogeneity in Asian-American Home ownership: the Impact of Household Endowments and Immigrant Status
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• Spring 2002, Location and Home ownership Choices of African-American Households in Los Angeles
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• Spring 2002, A Test of Cultural Affinity in Home Mortgage Lending
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• Winter 2002, The Continuing Decentralization of People and Jobs in the United States
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• Winter 2002, The Demand For Home Modifications Among Seniors
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2001

• Spring 2001, Industry and Urbanization In Southern California, 1900-1950
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• Winter 2001, Finding The Blight That's Right for California Redevelopment Law
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• Winter 2001, In Defense of "Sprawl"
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2000

• Winter 2000, The Composition of Metropolitan Employment and The Correlation of Prices Across Metropolitan Areas
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• Fall 2000, Rental Housing Markets, the Incidence and Duration of Vacancy, and the Natural Vacancy Rate
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• March 2000, Should Corporations Disgorge Their Real Estate Property Holdings?
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• February 2000, Race Immigrant Status, and Home ownership
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• January 2000, Real Options, Ground Lease Contacts and Marina del Rey
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