Karl Case

Karl E. Case will visit the Miami campus April 9 and 10 to share his perspectives on the U.S. housing market with students and faculty members. He will present a lecture at 3:30 p.m. April 9 in Hall Auditorium, speaking on “The U.S. Housing Market and the Great Recession.”

A nationally known economist whose name is associated with residential real estate pricing indicators, Karl E. Case is Katharine Coman and A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics at Wellesley College. He is also a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and is a prolific researcher and author in the areas of real estate, housing, and public finance.

Case, along with Robert Shiller and Allan Weiss, founded the real estate research firm of Case Shiller Weiss, Inc. They developed the Case Shiller Indices, the most widely accepted measure of home prices in the U.S. and the basis for futures and options trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

In 2002, the firm was sold to Fiserv.

An author or co-author of five books, Case has written extensively on real estate cycles and their impact on economic performance. With Ray C. Fair and Sharon Oster, he wrote Principles of Economics, a basic text that has been adopted at more than 500 colleges and universities. The text is now in its ninth edition.

Case serves as a member of the boards of directors of the Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corp. (MGIC) and the Depositors Insurance Fund of Massachusetts.

Case earned a B.A. in economics from Miami University in 1968. He then spent three years on active duty with the U.S. Army before studying for his Ph.D. in economics at Harvard University.

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