Biography

Christian Hilber is Professor of Economic Geography at the London School of Economics (LSE) and holds a secondary Ad Personam Professorship in Real Estate Finance and Economics at the University of Zurich (UZH). He is an urban economist whose research focuses on housing supply, land use regulation, homeownership, real estate price and rent dynamics, local public finance, and inequality. At LSE, he serves as Deputy Head of the Department of Geography and Environment and is an Associate of the Centre for Economic Performance. At UZH, he is Vice President (Research) of the Executive Board of the Center for Urban & Real Estate Management (CUREM). He has advised UK government bodies and international organizations, and his research has informed UK parliamentary and U.S. Senate hearings.

Current areas of research include:

• Urban economics and inequality: Land use regulation, homeownership, and the cost of NIMBYism; The long-run wealth effects of housing choices
• Urban economics and homeownership: The geography of homeownership: The missing supply side
• Urban economics and fiscal federalism: The lasting effect of governance structure on the built environment
• Urban economics and productivity: Planning restrictiveness and the slowdown in UK productivity
• Urban economics and housing consumption: The geographic determinants of housing consumption and unit size; the role of land use planning