Stuart Rosenthal

About

Stuart S. Rosenthal is a professor at the Cornell Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, serving as Chair of the Paul Rubacha Department of Real Estate. He comes to Cornell from Syracuse University, where he held the position of Maxwell Advisory Board Professor of Economics and was a senior research associate at the university's Center for Policy Research. His work encompasses many aspects of the economics of cities, including housing and mortgage markets, local tax policy, spatial patterns of productivity, and land use and costs. Rosenthal's expertise has contributed to critical discourse related to real estate markets from multiple perspectives, making him well-suited to lead and shape real estate education at Cornell. He serves on the editorial boards of various academic journals and has been a co-managing editor of the Journal of Urban Economics since 2007. His research has been published in prominent journals such as the American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Urban Economics, and Real Estate Economics. Rosenthal is a Fellow of the Homer Hoyt School of Advanced Studies in Real Estate and Urban Economics and the Regional Science Association International. He has served on the council for the Urban Economics Association, the Board of Directors of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA), and as an executive officer of AREUEA from 2013 to 2015. From 2017 to 2021, he…

Research topics

• Economics
• Economic geography
• Economic growth
• Business
• Geography
• Mathematics
• Market economy
• Finance
• Macroeconomics
• Economy

Selected publications

• Agglomeration Economies and the Built Environment: Evidence from Specialized Buildings and Anchor Tenants

  Journal of Urban Economics · 2024-05-21 · 5 citations

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• Tenant Riskiness, Contract Length, and the Term Structure of Commercial Leases

  Management Science · 2025-08-29 · 1 citations

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  This paper explores the connection between tenant riskiness, commercial lease length, and the term structure of lease contracts. Theory shows that the possibility of default on a long-term lease generates a risk/lease-length connection. The empirical work uses a large CompStak lease data set combined with tenant characteristics (including risk) from Dun & Bradstreet (D&B). Regressions show that lease length is inversely related to the D&B risk measures, as predicted, and that risky t…

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• JUE 2007–2023: Rising impact

  Journal of Urban Economics · 2024-11-01

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• Racial Minorities, Economic Scale, and the Geography

  2016-01-01

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• Neighborhood Effects and the Decision of Women to Work

  2015-01-01

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Frequent coauthors

• William C. Strange

  University of Toronto

  33 shared

• Stuart A. Gabriel

  Anderson University - South Carolina

  32 shared

• John V. Duca

  Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

  17 shared

• Donald R. Haurin

  The Ohio State University

  8 shared

• Jan K. Brueckner

  6 shared

• William H. Hoyt

  University of Kentucky

  5 shared

• Crocker H. Liu

  5 shared

• Eleonora Patacchini

  4 shared

Awards & honors

• RSAI Walter Isard Award for Scholarly Achievement (2013)
• Fellow of the Homer Hoyt School of Advanced Studies in Real…
• Fellow of the Regional Science Association International (RS…

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