Economic Forecast

Dr. Gerd Welke, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Gerd Welke is Professor of Real Estate Analytics in the College of Business at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. His academic research interests cover the real estate capital markets, housing market efficiency, and housing policy, and he teaches classes in real estate, finance, and business analytics at the undergraduate and graduate levels. As executive director of the Real Estate Research Council, he is responsible for the long-running SoCal and NorCal Real Estate Research Council quarterly housing and construction reports. Gerd is a member of the board of directors of the National Housing Law Project and the advisory board of the Real Estate and Land Use Institute. He has consulted extensively in industry and for startups on a wide range of topics such as derivatives valuation, as a real estate capital markets expert witness, on Merton default models for real estate assets, and general insurance pricing.

Dr Welke graduated from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley with a Ph.D. in Real estate finance. In a prior incarnation, he was a physicist, using BBGKY hierarchies to study transport properties of nuclear matter and deconfined hadronic plasmas.