Stephen Malpezzi

Recent Activites

• Moderated a panel session on the "The Budget and Financial Reforms: What's on the Horizon?" at the Wisconsin Real Estate and Economic Outlook Conference held in Madison in June 2011.
• Met with a delegation from Chongqing University, including the university's president, Jianhua Lin, to discuss areas for collaboration. June 2011.
• Presented at the Graaskamp Center Board Meeting on April 14-15, 2011 in Chicago.
• Quoted in an article on SmartMoney.com that looks at housing bargains nationwide. The article pointed to the role UW-Madison plays in the city’s economic health and noted that several area biotech companies were founded by people with university ties.
• Participated in the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Housing- Labor-Macro-Urban Conference at the Chicago Fed in April 2010.
• Discussed the National Stimulus Package on "Office Hours."
• Participated in a panel discussion on housing on the Wisconsin Eye, a website providing live covereage of activities in Wisconsin government, as well as community affairs and policy discussions. January 2010.
• Participated on a panel discussion on the UW Memorial Union with Doug Harris, Professor of Educational Policy Analysis, and David Canon, Professor of Political Science, to discuss the issue of segregation in America's urban areas. November 2009.
• Attended the Urban Land Institute’s annual conference in San Francisco, CA on November 3-7, 2009.
• Presented at the Wisconsin Business Council Economic Symposium. November 2009.
• Participated in a new research conference on topics including foreclosures, income/wealth and housing, house prices, and geography and labor co-sponsored by the Graakamp Center for Real Estate and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta held on September 25-26, 2009.
• Presented on "Fundamental of the U.S. Economy and Housing Prices" at the 2009 Wisconsin Housing Conference in June. Served as faculty director of the conference.
• Keynote speaker at the 2009 Connecticut Housing Conference(Hartford, CT) on May 12, 2009. Presented on the topic of "The Crisis in the U.S. Housing and financial Markets: How did we get here? Which way out?"
• Presented research to:
  • Australian Tax Foundation
  • Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
  • Midwest Economic Association
  • Kiwanis Club of Hartland, Wisconsin
  • Peking University Law School, Bejing
  • University of Melbourne Law School
  • Tsinghua University, Beijing
  • Lincoln Institute Conference on Housing Policy and Housing Markets in China, Cambridge, MA
  • Homer Hoyt Institute, West Palm Beach, FL
• Papers:
  • Stephen Malpezzi, Thomas Mitchell and Richard Green, "Forced Sale Risk: Class, Race and the ‘Double Discount,’" accepted for publication by the Florida State University Law Review.
  • Stephen Malpezzi and Michael LaCour-Little, "Gated Streets and Housing Prices," accepted for publication by the Journal of Housing Research.
• Assisted the World Bank in the provision of technical assistance on housing policy to the Government of Poland.
• Lectured on "Urban Form in 50 World Cities" and "The U.S. Financial and Economic Crisis" to Sogang University.
• Lectured on "The Political Economy of the U.S. Financial and Economic Crisis" to the Korea Development Institute Graduate School.
• Lead discussion on local economic development at the Wisconsin Legislature Family Impact Seminar.
• Interviewed by Greg Jeschke of local WKOW-TV (Channel 27) on the U.S. housing crisis. Airs May 4th.
• Appeared on the Big 10 Network show "Office Hours" with Karl Scholz and Ken Goldstein to discuss the current U.S. economic outlook.
• Quoted in the Wisconsin State Journal weekend edition article, "Sun Prairie real estate auction billed as one of the largest in state history."