Crocker
Liu, Associate Professor of Finance. BBA
Real Estate/Finance (1976) University of
His research interests are focused on issues in real
estate finance, particularly topics related to agency, organizational forms,
market efficiency, and valuation. His research has been published in the Review
of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal
of Business, the Journal of Financial and Quantiative
Analysis, the Real Estate Economics Journal (formerly known as the
AREUEA Journal) and the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics.
Professor Liu won the AREUEA doctoral dissertation award
and also won a 1991 postdoctoral award from the Homer Hoyt's Weimer School of
Advanced Studies in Real Estate and Land Economics. He has received the
"Best Research Paper Award" from the American Real Estate and Urban
Economics Association in 1992 (co-authored with Aswath
Damodaran), and 1993-1994 (co-authored with Jianping Mei). In addition to
this, Crocker is the past winner of the Wiley Award (1990) for Best Paper in
the Journal of Real Estate Research and was named Undergraduate Teacher of the
Year (1996-1997 and also 2001-2002) and Executive MBA in Finance Teacher of the
Year (1997, 1999). In 1999, he became a Distinguished Teaching
Fellow.
He has been a professional realtor in