Joseph E. Gyourko

About

Joseph E. Gyourko is a professor associated with the Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His work is centered on real estate education and research, contributing to the center's mission of promoting excellence in these areas. Gyourko is actively involved in various events and programs related to real estate, including the Grayken Program in International Real Estate and the Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center's initiatives. He is recognized for his leadership in the field, participating in podcasts and discussions on housing affordability and urban development. His contributions support the center's goal of mastering the metropolis through research and thought leadership.

Research topics

• Geography
• Economics
• Business
• Demography
• Macroeconomics
• Archaeology
• Engineering
• Financial economics
• Labour economics
• Civil engineering

Selected publications

• Land finance in China: Analysis and review

  China Economic Review · 2022 · 167 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
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• The local residential land use regulatory environment across U.S. housing markets: Evidence from a new Wharton index

  Journal of Urban Economics · 2021 · 138 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
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• The role of price spillovers in the American housing boom

  Journal of Urban Economics · 2018-10-11 · 71 citations

  articleSenior authorCorresponding
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• The Local Residential Land Use Regulatory Environment Across U.S. Housing Markets: Evidence from a New Wharton Index

  National Bureau of Economic Research · 2019-12-01 · 47 citations

  report1st authorCorresponding

  We report results from a new survey of local residential land use regulatory regimes for over 2,450 primarily suburban communities across the U.S. The most highly regulated markets are on the two coasts, with the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan areas being the most highly regulated according to our metric. Comparing our new data to that from a previous survey finds that the housing bust associated with the Great Recession did not lead any major market that previously was highly regu…

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• Why Has Construction Productivity Stagnated? The Role of Land-Use Regulation

  National Bureau of Economic Research · 2024-11-01 · 14 citations

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  Why is it so expensive to build? Foerster et al. (2022) find that the American economy for-goes 0.75 percentage points in GDP growth every year because of sluggish productivity growth in construction, which implies a $1 trillion loss every five years. We formalize and evaluate the hypothesis that land-use regulation limits the size of building projects, which reduces the size of construction companies, which limits scale economies and the incentives to invest in innovation, which limits producti…

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Frequent coauthors

• Edward L. Glaeser

  National Bureau of Economic Research

  159 shared

• Joseph Tracy

  49 shared

• Raven E. Saks

  46 shared

• Yongheng Deng

  University of Wisconsin–Madison

  42 shared

• Jing Wu

  The University of Texas at Austin

  40 shared

• Joshua D. Gottlieb

  University of Chicago

  40 shared

• Todd Sinai

  32 shared

• Albert Sáiz

  26 shared

Labs

• Zell/Lurie Real Estate CenterPI

Awards & honors

• Joe Gyourko Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Fund

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