Karl E. Case

Karl E. Case is the Katherine Coman and A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics at Wellesley College where he has taught for 30 years.

Case is also a founding partner in the real estate research firm of Fiserv Case Shiller Weiss, Inc. and serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation (MGIC) and of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association.

Professor Case received his B.A. from Miami University in 1968, spent three years on active duty in the Army, and received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1976.

Professor Case's research has been in the areas of real estate, housing and public finance. He is author or co-author of five books including Principles of Economics, Economics and Tax Policy and Property Taxation: The Need for Reform and has published numerous articles in professional journals. Principles of Economics, a basic text co-authored with Ray C. Fair, is in its eighth edition and has been adopted at more than 450 colleges and universities.

For the last 25 years, his research has focused on real estate markets and prices. He has authored a number of studies that attempt to isolate the causes and consequences of boom and bust real estate cycles and their relationship to economic performance.

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Profile last updated: 12/06