Jim Clayton, PhD, Special Advisor
Jim Clayton is an Associate Professor of Finance and Real Estate at the University of Cincinnati, where he teaches courses in real estate finance, investment and development. His research focuses on real estate investment, valuation and cycles for both private and public real estate. He has published in the leading academic real estate journals including Real Estate Economics, the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, the Journal of Real Estate Research, as well as the Canadian Investment Review and the Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences. Professor Clayton has developed Real Estate Capital Market courses for the Dayton Chapter of NAIOP and also PricewaterhouseCooper's Real Estate Group. He serves on the board of directors of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association and the editorial boards of Real Estate Economics and the Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management. He works with other Clayton Research senior staff on assignments involving the application of quantitative modelling techniques to enhance understanding and to forecast real estate space (user), asset market dynamics, and real estate price imports. He serves on the editorial boards of Real Estate Economics, the leading U.S. academic real estate journal, and Real Estate Finance, a top real estate investment industry research periodical. Recent honours include three consecutive research grants from the Real Estate Research Institute (RERI) and the 2000 Homer-Hoyt post-doctoral fellow award.