Please join us for a conversation with Karl E. “Chip” Case.  Professor Case recently retired from his position as the Katharine Coman and A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics at Wellesley College, after teaching there for more than  30 years.

He was a founding partner in the real estate research firm Fiserv Case Shiller Weiss, Inc. and serves as a member of the Boards of Directors of the Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation (MGIC) and the Depositors Insurance Fund of Massachusetts.  He is a member of the Standard and Poors Index Advisory Committee,  the Academic Advisory Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Board of Advisors of the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston at Harvard University.

Professor Case received his B.A. from Miami University in 1968, spent three years on active duty in the Army and received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1976.

Professor Case is a leader in the study of real estate and housing economics. He is author or co-author of five books including Principles of Economics, Economics and Tax Policy and Property Taxation: The Need for Reform,  and has published numerous articles in professional journals. Principles of Economics, a basic text co-authored with Ray C. Fair and Sharon Oster, is in its ninth edition.