I am an indepent economic consultant dedicated to helping cities and city builders make fiscally and environmentally sustainable places. In particular, I can help in policy evaluation, assessments, contested property valuation and zoning reform. I also have some experience with antitrust, transfer pricing and regulatory economics. To that end, I am the founder and chief economist of citinomics.

I am a former Research Economist and Associate Policy Adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. I received my PhD in Economics from Syracuse University where I spent five years at the Center for Policy Research. I’m an applied economist, focused on housing supply and development, zoning, housing finance, local public finance and the provision of public goods. I received the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association’s (AREUEA) Dissertation Prize. I also received the Maxwell School’s Moynihan prize for the same work on uncertainty and land development.

CV

Published Papers

Working Papers

Blogs, Podcasts, Twitter, Teaching

Github

External publication tracking: Repec, Google Scholar, SSRN, Ideas.

*The opinions expressed here are mine and do not reflect those of Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, the Federal Reserve System or the Board of Governors.

70 years of Seattle area municipal annexation and incorporation; subdivision, road building and the ultimate Urban Growth Boundary.

0000-0002-0278-0069