It is our pleasure to invite your participation to the Virtual IRES Symposium for Doctoral Students. The symposium brings together doctoral students from various disciplines. Anyone who registers can participate at no cost. Registered participants will receive the link to watch the recorded presentations as well as papers/abstract submitted by 31 short-listed doctoral students on the IRES website and will be able to join the live symposium sessions. Registered participants will receive the details of the live sessions.

LINK FOR REGISTRATION (please click “REGISTRTION WITHOUT SUBMISSION”):
http://www.iresnet.net/ires-virtual-symposium-for-doctoral-students/

Please register by 25th October to make sure you will receive the information about the live sessions.

FORMAT: Each day, we will have three 30-minute sessions. We expect participants to watch video presentations before live sessions. In a live session, a student will present the summary of the research spending 5 minutes. An assigned mentor will give comments and ask questions spending 10-15 minutes. The remaining 10-15 minutes will be open for all participants to ask questions/make comments.

THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Schedule of live sessions:

28th October (Wed) from 9:00pm to 10:30pm in Singapore Time (GMT+8)

Chair: Dr. Kwan Ok Lee (National University of Singapore)

  1. Title: Spatial online housing search in the UK
    Presenter: Charlotte van der Lijn (University of Sheffield)
  2. Title: The boom-bus asymmetry of supply elasticity and property price changes: New evidence from within-city analysis
    Presenter: Ren Ren (The University of Hong Kong)
  3. Title: Spatial memory or spatial shock: employing transactional spatio-temporal GARCH on property prices
    Presenter: Aleksandar Petresk (Jönköping International Business School)

29th October (Thur) from 9:00pm to 10:30pm in Singapore Time (GMT+8)

Chair: Dr. Masaki Mori (University of Reading)

  1. Title: Proximity to COVID-19 cases and real estate equity returns
    Presenter: Lingshan Xie (University College London)
  2. Title: Is mandatory risk reporting informative? Evidence from US REITs using machine learning for text analysis
    Presenter: Marina Koelbl (Universität Regensburg)
  3. Title: Pricing the location of commercial properties
    Presenter: Wei Lin (University of St. Gallen)

30th October (Fri) from 9:00pm to 10:30pm in Singapore Time (GMT+8)

Chair: Dr. Jeremy Gabe (University of San Diego)

  1. Title: How should we measure shocks to housing return: Total versus appreciation returns?
    Presenter: Han Liu (The George Washington University)
  2. Title: The effect of public property valuation
    Presenter: Simon Stehle (University of Konstanz)
  3. Title: Coworking spaces and start-ups: Empirical evidence from a product market competition perspective
    Presenter: Felix Gauger (TU Darmstadt)

The International Real Estate Society (IRES) is a federation of regional real estate societies. Each Society maintains control over its own activities while participating in the federation to get the benefits of global co-operation.

MISSION OF IRES: The mission of the International Real Estate Society is to:

  • Encourage communication, co-operation, and co-ordination regarding real estate research and education on a world-wide basis
  • Encourage and assist in establishment of real estate education and research programs on a world-wide basis
  • Encourage research on international real estate topics
  • Encourage and facilitate faculty exchanges

SUPPORTING SOCIETIES:

AfRES (African Real Estate Society), ARES (American Real Estate Society), AsRES (Asian Real Estate Society), ERES (European Real Estate Society), LARES (Latin American Real Estate Society), PRRES (Pacifc Rim Real Estate Society)