Stuart Rosenthal
Professor and Chair, Economics
Maxwell Advisory Board Professor of Economics
Aging Studies Institute
Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Degree
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1986
Specialties
Urban economics, state and local public economies, real estate finance and housing
Personal Website
http://ssrosent.expressions.syr.edu
Courses
Fall 2019
Not Teaching
Biography
Stuart S. Rosenthal is the Maxwell Advisory Board Professor of Economics at Syracuse
University. He is also a Senior Research Associate in the university’s Center for Policy
Research and Chair of Maxwell's Department of Economics. He holds a Ph.D. in economics (1986) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
and a B.A. in economics (1980) from Bowdoin College. Before joining Syracuse University in
1999, Professor Rosenthal held positions in the Department of Economics at Virginia Tech
University, the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration at the University of British
Columbia, and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. His research is in the
area of urban economics, state and local public economics, real estate finance, and housing.
This includes work on a wide range of housing, homeownership, and mortgage issues, the
determinants of urban renewal and decay, local tax policy, the role of agglomeration economies,
and entrepreneurship. Professor Rosenthal serves on the editorial boards for a number of
academic journals and is a Fellow of the Homer Hoyt School of Advanced Studies in Real Estate
and Urban Economics. He is also a council member of the Urban Economic Association and serves as the editor of the Journal of Urban Economics. Full Biography
Publications
Selected Papers
Research Interests
Urban Economics
Housing and Mortgage Markets
Real Estate
Agglomeration Economies
Neighborhood Dynamics