Real Estate Finance and Economics

Chen, Yifan, Sean Wilkoff, and Jiro Yoshida. "Amazon is coming to town: Sequential Information Revelation in the Housing Market." Real Estate Economics, forthcoming.

Chen, Yifan, Jianhua Gang, Zongxin Qian, and Jinfan Zhang. "Rationality Test in the Housing Market: Project‐level Evidence from China." Journal of Regional Science 63, no. 3 (2023): 583-616.

Chen, Yifan, Jim H. Shen and Da Zhao. "Mortgage payments and household consumption in urban China." Economic Modelling, 93 (2020): 100-111.

• Summer Research Grant, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2023
• Trepp CRE Future Leader Award, 2022
• Smeal Strong Doctoral Award, The Pennsylvania State University, 2022
• Smeal Small Research Grant for Ph.D. student, The Pennsylvania State University, 2019-2020
• Summer Economics Fellowship, American Economic Association, 2019
• Real Estate Research Institute Research Travel Grant, 2018
• Valedictorian, Renmin University of China, 2015
• Study Abroad Scholarship to UC Berkeley, Renmin University of China, 2013