JOHN Y. CAMPBELL
Morton L. and Carole S. Olshan Professor of Economics at Harvard University

The American Real Estate Society (ARES) is pleased to announce that John Y. Campbell, the Morton L. and Carole S. Olshan Professor of Economics at Harvard University, has been awarded the 2026 Michael J. Seiler Behavioral Research Commendation, created to attract and encourage top researchers from a wide array of disciplines to focus their research efforts towards expanding knowledge in the area of behavioral real estate. Professor Campbell will be given the award and the monetary prize at the 2026 ARES Annual Meeting in San Destin, FL, from March 24-28, 2026, where he will deliver the Keynote Address at the Awards Luncheon.

Professor Campbell has published over 100 articles in top Finance and Economics journals on various aspects of finance and macroeconomics, including fixed-income securities, equity valuation, portfolio choice, and household finance. His books include Fixed: Why Personal Finance is Broken and How to Make It Work for Everyone (with Tarun Ramadorai, PUP 2025) and The Econometrics of Financial Markets (with Andrew Lo and Craig MacKinlay, PUP 1997).

LEF RESEARCH GRANT ANNOUNCEMENT - 2025

BACKGROUND

The 4th Edition of Commercial Real Estate Analysis for Investment, Finance and Development is finally being released this fall 2025, published by Rutledge (Taylor & Francis), with the addition of some new co-authors. The authors now include David Geltner, Norm Miller, Alex Van De Minne, Piet Eicholtz, Thies Lindenthal and Lily Shen. To buy the book or order an evaluation copy go here or go to the Rutledge.com site. This will be a new format, a “hybrid” book with half (core chapters) in print and half online or fully online. This approach keeps the text cost down for students to less than half of the cost of the previous edition.