Eunjee Kwon, Ph.D
Assistant Professor of Real Estate
Department of Finance
University of Cincinnati
My name is Eunjee Kwon (Korean Name: 권은지), and I am an Assistant Professor of Real Estate in the Department of Finance at the Lindner College of Business, University of Cincinnati.
My research focuses on urban, real estate, and spatial economics, with particular emphasis on understanding the causes and consequences of location choices and their implications for the dynamics of cities.
I have also held visiting faculty positions at globally renowned institutions, including MIT (Real Estate), Sogang University (Economics), and Seoul National University (Economics). I earned my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Southern California in May 2021.
[Email] kwonee [at] ucmail [dot] uc [dot] edu
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JUE Insights: How Do Cities Change When We Work from Home? (w/ Matt Delventhal, Andrii Parkhomenko) has been nominated as one of the top 3 most cited papers in 2021–2023 at the Journal of Urban Economics.
The Unintended Consequences of Post-Disaster Policies for Spatial Sorting (with Marcel Henkel and Pierre Magontier) Journal of Political Economy (Revised and Resubmitted)
The Effect of Targeted Subsidies on the Location Choice of Housing Voucher Recipients was awarded Social and Culture Award, by Office of Research University of Cincinnati (PI, $25,000) (2024-2026)
[Selected Presentation Lists (2024 March-), Upcoming*]
Interview with Business Insider: More people may never own a home — they're the 'forever renters' May 2024
*(2025 April) Present: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Economics) Seminar
*(2025 Feb) Present: Syracuse University (Economics) Seminar
*(2025 Jan) Present: ASSA-AREUEA, San Francisco (+ Session Chair and Discussant)
(2024 Oct)) Present: Federal Reserve Bank Philadelphia & Fannie Mae, Workshop on Changing Demographics and Housing Demand, Washington D.C.
(2024 Oct) Present: Notre Dame University Conference on Housing Market, Notre Dame
(2024 Sep) Present: Purdue University Seminar
(2024 Jul) Present: NBER Summer Institute: Urban Economics Session
(2024 Jul) Present: University of Chicago, Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility Conference
(2024 Jul) Visiting: Seoul National University, Department of Economics
(2024 May) American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, National - Scientific Committee, Session Chair, and Discussant
(2024 Apr) Presented at the UCLA Conference on Low-IncomeHousing Supply and Housing Affordability
(2024 Apr) Presented at the Ohio State University Real Estate Conference (Academic & Practitioners audience)
(2024 Mar) Presented at the World Bank Urbanization and Poverty Reduction Conference (Academic & Practitioners)