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ARES Best Paper Award to Hollo School's Lin.

Zhenguo (Len) Lin

(August 30, 2018) Dr. Zhenguo (Len) Lin has won American Real Estate Society (ARES) best paper awards for the Housing category for his paper titled, “Price and Trading Volume in the Housing Market.”

Lin was ranked 4th globally for the period of 2013-2017 (Saginor 2017, Journal of Real Estate Literature). In 2013, he received the William N. Kinnard Young Scholar Award, an international recognition for making significant contributions in his field. His work “Spillover Effects of Foreclosures on Neighborhood Property Values”, which appeared in the 2009 Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, has proven invaluable in predicting the recent housing crisis, has been heavily cited by over 290 academic studies and cited by former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.  

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