Dr. Daniel Quan

Biography

Daniel Quan joined Cornell University Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration as a full professor of financial management in January 2007, having initially joined as an associate professor in the fall of 1999. His teaching and research interests focus on Real Estate and Real Estate Finance, with a special emphasis on securitization and structured finance. Prior to his appointment at Cornell, Quan served as the chief mortgage economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve in Washington, DC, where he was responsible for monitoring and reporting on issues related to both primary and secondary mortgage markets across the residential and commercial sectors. Before joining the Federal Reserve Board, he held academic positions at the University of Texas at Austin's McCombs School of Business, UCLA's Anderson School of Business, the University of British Columbia, and Uppsala University. Daniel completed his PhD in Business Administration with a specialization in finance and real estate from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the editorial boards of several academic journals and serves as a board director for the Asian Real Estate Society. His publications include research on auction theory, international performance in commercial real estate, the role of information in real estate markets, and pricing and hedging risk in the hospitality industry.

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