Authors

Cameron LaPoint is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Yale School of Management, where he teaches MBA and Law elective courses in Real Estate Finance. His research uses administrative data to examine the incidence of taxes and financial regulation on real estate markets. His work also focuses on household finance aspects of property investment, including the impact of property taxes and mortgage delinquency on urban development. Cameron earned his PhD in Economics from Columbia University in 2020, and his B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Rochester in 2013. He received the 2020 Homer Hoyt Dissertation Award from the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association for his dissertation work on the 1980s Japanese Asset Price Bubble. He studied Economics in Japan at Kyoto University as a 2013-2014 U.S. Fulbright Scholar. 

Daniel Burge is a Masters of Public Policy candidate at George Washington University. He earned his PhD in American history from Boston University and his Bachelors from the University of Puget Sound. He has published opinion pieces on banking regulation and the 1980s savings and loan crisis in the Washington Post. Before pursuing a career in public policy, Daniel taught American history at U-Mass Boston, Harvard, and Northeastern University.