Jeffrey Cohen

Professor and Kinnard Scholar in Real Estate

Department of Finance

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 Department 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. He has been a Senior Research Fellow at Saint Louis University since 2021. In January 2020, he was appointed as a Fellow with the Homer Hoyt Institute for Real Estate and Land Economics. In 2008, he was a visiting researcher at the U.S. EPA through a fellowship with the National Academies of Sciences, where he guided EPA scientists’ analysis of the costs and benefits of various types of stormwater infrastructure.

Professor Cohen’s current research interests include transit-oriented development and housing; natural disasters, green stormwater infrastructure, and real estate values; the impact 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 treatment provider operating costs and urban economic issues (such as transit and affordable housing). Among over 60 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.