Paul Anglin

Biography

Paul Anglin joined the University of Guelph in 2005 and is now a Professor Emeritus. He has worked in Canada and the United States, as well as being a visiting scholar in Hong Kong, Poland and Singapore. He received his B.Sc. (Hons.) from the University of Toronto and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Western Ontario (now called Western University) in Economic Theory.

His best-known research focuses on the processes of buying and selling property, with a special emphasis on “time-on-market” and “over-pricing”. He has contributed ideas to a diverse set of topics including price dynamics, price indices, information asymmetry and physics. His work, using both empirical and analytical methods, has been published in leading refereed journals such as the Journal of Political Economy, Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Public Policy, Real Estate Economics, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, and the Journal of Real Estate Research. He is a member of the Editorial Board for Real Estate Economics, for which AREUEA awarded him one of their best referee awards in 2007 and in 2020, and the Journal of European Real Estate Research. More than 50 academic journals and research associations from around the world have asked for his opinion on manuscripts and research proposals. He is now active researching and writing on topics related to the causes and effects of changing market conditions in real estate markets, to forecasting, to the differences between bargaining and auctions in real estate markets and the implications of artificial intelligence.

He has taught courses at all levels of microeconomics, on Real Estate Market Analysis and, most recently, on Sales and Negotiation. After listening to students and other smart people for more than four decades, he asserts that the vast majority of ideas, applications and techniques discussed in these courses can be summarized by five basic principles. Most mistakes of analysis and most apparent paradoxes in a market-based environment can be resolved by identifying how one or more of these principles was misunderstood. These ideas, and the wisdom associated with them, are explored more fully on his blog 5bpEcon.com.

• B.Sc. (Hons.), University of Toronto
• M.A., University of Western Ontario
• Ph.D., University of Western Ontario

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka' but 'That's funny ...' "

Isaac Asimov

Supervision:

Open to advising MSc students: NO

Open to advising PhD (Mgmt.) students: NO

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