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Joseph Gyourko is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on economics, econometrics, and finance, with a particular emphasis on housing market and economics. Other areas of study include regional economics and spatial analysis, spatial and panel data analysis, urbanization and city planning, fiscal policy and economic growth, housing finance and neoliberalism, and fiscal policies and political economy.

The scientist has published extensively in a range of academic journals and platforms. Frequent publication venues include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Urban Economics
  • The Review of Economics and Statistics
  • Brookings Papers on Economic Activity
  • Harvard Dataverse

Among their recent papers are:

  • The local residential land use regulatory environment across U.S. housing markets: Evidence from a new Wharton index, 2021, Journal of Urban Economics
  • Anatomy of the Beginning of the Housing Boom across U.S. Metropolitan Areas, 2021, The Review of Economics and Statistics
  • Why Has Construction Productivity Stagnated? The Role of Land-Use Regulation, 2024, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Impact of Local Residential Land Use Restrictions on Land Values Across and within Single Family Housing Markets, 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal

Collaborations have been a notable aspect of their academic work, with frequent co-authors including Edward L. Glaeser, Jacob Krimmel, Leonardo D'Amico, and Giacomo A. M. Ponzetto.

Their research contributions engage with topics such as housing market dynamics, regulatory impacts on land use, urban planning factors, and spatial economic analysis. This work contributes to a detailed understanding of local and regional economic systems as they relate to housing and urban development.

Best Publications

  • The Impact of Zoning on Housing Affordability

    Edward L. Glaeser;Joseph Gyourko

  • Urban Decline and Durable Housing

    Edward L. Glaeser;Joseph Gyourko

  • Housing Supply and Housing Bubbles

    Edward L. Glaeser;Joseph Gyourko;Albert Saiz

  • A New Measure of the Local Regulatory Environment for Housing Markets: The Wharton Residential Land Use Regulatory Index

    Joseph Gyourko;Albert Saiz;Anita Summers

  • Why Is Manhattan So Expensive? Regulation and the Rise in Housing Prices*

    Edward L. Glaeser;Joseph Gyourko;Raven Saks

  • Why Have Housing Prices Gone Up

    Edward L. Glaeser;Joseph Gyourko;Raven E. Saks

  • Urban growth and housing supply

    Edward L. Glaeser;Joseph Gyourko;Raven E. Saks

  • The Structure of Local Public Finance and the Quality of Life

    Joseph Gyourko;Joseph Tracy

  • Why Have Housing Prices Gone Up

    Edward L. Glaeser;Joseph Gyourko;Raven E. Saks

  • Evaluating Conditions in Major Chinese Housing Markets

    Jing Wu;Jing Wu;Joseph Gyourko;Yongheng Deng

  • What Does the Stock Market Tell Us About Real Estate Returns

    Joseph Gyourko;Donald B. Keim

  • The Impact of Building Restrictions on Housing Affordability

    Edward L. Glaeser;Joseph Gyourko

  • Regulation and Housing Supply

    Joseph Gyourko;Raven Molloy

  • Housing busts and household mobility

    Fernando Ferreira;Joseph Gyourko;Joseph Tracy

  • The Economic Implications of Housing Supply

    Edward Glaeser;Joseph Gyourko

  • Superstar Cities

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  • Do Political Parties Matter? Evidence from U.S. Cities

    Fernando Ferreira;Joseph Gyourko

  • The Impact of Zoning on Housing Affordability

    Edward L. Glaeser;Edward L. Glaeser;Edward L. Glaeser;Joseph Gyourko;Joseph Gyourko

  • Does Gender Matter for Political Leadership? The Case of U.S. Mayors

    Fernando Ferreira;Joseph Gyourko

  • Evaluating the risk of Chinese housing markets: What we know and what we need to know ☆

    Jing Wu;Joseph Gyourko;Yongheng Deng

  • Can Cheap Credit Explain the Housing Boom

    Edward L Glaeser;Joshua D Gottlieb;Joseph Gyourko

  • An Analysis of Public- and Private-Sector Wages Allowing for Endogenous Choices of Both Government and Union Status

    Joseph Gyourko;Joseph Tracy

  • Chapter 37 Quality of life and environmental comparisons

    Joseph Gyourko;Matthew Kahn;Joseph Tracy

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward L. Glaeser
Edward L. Glaeser Harvard University
Joseph S. Tracy
Joseph S. Tracy American Enterprise Institute
Yongheng Deng
Yongheng Deng University of Wisconsin–Madison
Christopher J. Mayer
Christopher J. Mayer Columbia University
Donald B. Keim
Donald B. Keim University of Pennsylvania
Matthew E. Kahn
Matthew E. Kahn University of Southern California
Susan M. Wachter
Susan M. Wachter University of Pennsylvania

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