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Overlapping Real Asset Networks and Corporate Investment

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Time-Geographically Weighted Regressions and Residential Property Value Assessment

Traffic Noise in Georgia: Sound Levels and Inequality

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Jeffrey P. Cohen is the Kinnard Scholar in Real Estate, and a Professor at UConn’s Center for Real Estate and Urban Economic Studies, the Department of Finance, and the School of Business. He is also currently a Research Fellow with the Community Development group at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

From 2001-2020 he had been a frequent visiting scholar with the research division of the St. Louis Fed. From January 2024 to December 2025, he is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s Regional & Community Outreach department. He was a Senior Research Fellow at Saint Louis University from 2021 to 2024. Professor Cohen has been a visiting researcher at the RWI-Leibnitz Institute for Economic Research in Essen, Germany since 2017. Since 2020, he has been a Fellow with the Homer Hoyt Institute for Real Estate and Land Economics.

Professor Cohen’s current research interests include transit oriented development and housing; examining the impacts on real estate wealth from interstate highway construction; natural disasters and real estate; stormwater infrastructure, renewable energy, and real estate; the impacts of airports, airport noise and other transportation noise on property values; property taxation; land value estimation; housing price spillovers across jurisdictions; and the relationships between substance use disorder treatment provider operating costs and urban economic issues (such as transit and housing). 

Among over 50 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, Journal of Real Estate Research, Real Estate Economics, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment; Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review; and others.

He has previous teaching experience at Tufts University, the University of Maryland at College Park, the University of Toronto, 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 & Poor’s.

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