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Jeffrey P. Cohen is an associate professor of Real Estate and Finance at UConn’s Center for Real Estate, and Dean’s Ackerman Scholar, at the School of Business. Professor Cohen has longstanding collaborative research relationships with the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, and has been a recent Visiting Scholar at the St. Louis Fed in May, 2017 , December, 2017, March 2018, and June 2019. His current research interests include the impact of airports and airport noise on commercial and residential property values; property taxation; land value estimation; housing price spillovers across jurisdictions; the impacts of storms on real estate values; and the geographical aspects of REITs. Among approximately 40 peer-reviewed journal publications, he has published his research in several top journals, including: Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Regional Science, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Real Estate Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, and others.

He has previous teaching experience at Tufts University, the University of Maryland at College Park, and the University of Hartford. Professor Cohen has  also worked full-time at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as part of an award from the National Academies; and has been a Fellow with, and a seminar organizer for the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. He also has previous full-time employment experience in the private sector as a Senior Economist at Standard and Poor’s. He has served on expert panels for the National Academies, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. His other grants and consulting clients have included the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Small Business Administration, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the Vancouver Airport Authority in Canada, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the National Metropolitan Transportation Center (METRANS) at California State University-Long Beach.

Professor Cohen is currently the Principal Investigator on Phase 1 of a grant from the State of Connecticut Department of Transportation and the U.S. Department of Transportation/Federal Highway Administration, on how the new commuter rail line (called CTrail) connecting New Haven, Hartford, and Springfield MA, impacts real estate in neighborhoods near the stations.

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