REFLECTIONS ON INTERNATIONAL REAL ESTATE RESEARCH

摘要

My career in international real estate research started on a whim. Without knowing much about Australia other than what was portrayed in "Crocodile Dundee," I applied for a postdoctoral fellowship at the Australian National University in Canberra. I was just finishing my Ph.D. and had a tenure-track position in the U.S., but I was feeling foot-loose. When several months later I received a thick envelope in the mail containing a job offer from the A.N.U., it took me about 10 minutes to decide to move to Australia. I did not have a clue at the time how this decision would influence my research and I had no idea that I would wind up spending about 10 years in Australia and then New Zealand before returning to the U.S.