> Benjamin J. Keys, PhD Rowan Family Foundation Professor; Professor of Real Estate, Professor of Finance, The Wharton SchoolResearch Interests:household finance, real estate, applied econometrics, labor economics, urban economics About Benjamin Benjamin J. Keys is a professor in the Real Estate and Finance Departments at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. He is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research; an associate editor of the Journal of Finance, American Economic Journal, and Journal of Financial Economics; a member of the Academic Research Council at the Urban Institute’s Housing Finance Policy Center; and a fellow at the Center for Financial Security at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Previously, Keys was an assistant professor at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy and an economist in the Division of Research and Statistics at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. His research interests include household finance, mortgage finance, real estate, applied econometrics, and urban economics. Professor Keys received his BA from Swarthmore College and his MA and PhD from the University of Michigan. Read full faculty bio on Wharton website