Bourassa and Hoesli Win Best Paper Prize

Monday, Aug 29, 2016

SURP Director Steven Bourassa and co-author Martin Hoesli of the University of Geneva have won the “Innovative Thinking Out of the Box� best paper prize for their paper, “High Frequency House Price Indexes with Scarce Data�, presented at the 2016 American Real Estate Society (ARES) Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado. The paper presents a method for calculating house price indexes for small areas, such as city neighborhoods, on a monthly or quarterly basis. The paper is forthcoming in the  Journal of Real Estate Literature , which is published by ARES. The prize is sponsored by the Homer Hoyt Institute.