Cameron LaPoint

Assistant Prof. of Finance @YaleSOM. I study real estate & spatial corporate finance. @UofR alum & @Columbia_econ PhD.

[Cameron LaPoint @cslapoint]

📢NEW WP!📢 Property Tax Policy and Housing Affordability, joint w/Emily Horton, Byron Lutz, Nathan Seegert, and Jared Walczak.

Some new facts about the prevalence and use of local property tax relief policies and how these often make housing less affordable. 🧵👇 #econtwitter

[Cameron LaPoint @cslapoint]

@JohnHolbein1 We didn't find much evidence of partisanship in our study looking at the lease cancellations. Wide range of agencies and nearby tenants' public procurement contracts impacted. More leases cancelled in Rep states, but larger ones in Dem states. https://t.co/3zPP4OCdmh

[Cameron LaPoint @cslapoint]

@peterbakernyt @nytimes @emilymbadger Steve Choi (RIT) and I show in our recent research that early DOGE contract announcements were especially bad for D.C. real estate. Billions in property value destroyed from lost rents from GSA tenants + private tenants supplying services to agencies. https://t.co/3zPP4OCdmh

[Cameron LaPoint @cslapoint]

Thanks @OxfordFrom for the invitation to talk about how government-backed lending to homeowners in the form of PACE can help improve climate resilience of the housing stock.

The full paper is here: https://t.co/4zu8BaqpyM

[Martin Schmalz🧘 @OxfordFrom]

Why don't landlords make green investments, even when they could boost property value?
New episode of @OxfordFORE's Property Pod with Brian Lancaster & Cameron LaPoint (@cslapoint) explores PACE financing.
YT: https://t.co/zMgOB2YUY4
Spotify: https://t.co/G1DD77vFk9
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[Francesca Truffa @FrancescaTruffa]

📣📣📣 Menaka Hampole (@menaka_hampole), Ashley Wong (@ashleyywong) and I are hiring a pre-doc at University of Michigan starting Sept 2025 to work on a project on student debt, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

More details: https://t.co/QA2OEtH0EQ

Apply by August 8!

@econ_ra

[Nicola Limodio @NicolaLimodio]

Exciting call for proposals below for a conference at @Unibocconi in September with a special issue from the #ReviewofFinance on the issue of the #FutureOfPayments & #DigitalCapitalMarkets. Check this out, and consider submitting, see you in Milan. Link https://t.co/zGxI1ZOgf2

[Cameron LaPoint @cslapoint]

Thanks to the @VoxDev team for featuring our recent work on interest rate caps on corporate loans in Bangladesh.

I'll also be presenting our work in the WEFIDEV webinar on Mon. 5/12 at 11am EST: https://t.co/2OXISbqtwr

Full paper available here 🫱 https://t.co/LR3qjew6mo

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

🆕 How interest rate caps increased the provision of credit to firms in Bangladesh

Yusuke Kuroishi (@Hitotsubashi_U), @cslapoint (@YaleSOM) & Yuhei Miyauchi (@bu_economics) discuss the impact of a cap on corporate loan interest rates in Bangladesh: https://t.co/hYE8x2mudY

[Karsten Müller @KarstenMueIIer]

🚀 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐔𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞: 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞 (𝐆𝐌𝐃), 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓-𝟎𝟑 🚀

This week, we published the first update of the 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗵𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱. 🧵

[Cameron LaPoint @cslapoint]

@wwwojtekk Congratulations! I’m excited to see what new public finance research agenda this spurs :)

[National Tax Journal @JournalTax]

New work in @JournalTax:
“Property Tax Policy and Housing Affordability”
By @emilyhearsawho @cslapoint @byron_lutz Nathan Seegert @JaredWalczak
Read more here: https://t.co/JJp1JxGbjG

[Cameron LaPoint @cslapoint]

@EmilVerner Congratulations! Very well deserved

[Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh @SVNieuwerburgh]

📣new paper alert: An Alpha in Affordable Housing? a collaboration with with @damensven and @MKorevaar_ showing that low-rent/low-income housing earns the highest returns for landlords in the U.S., Belgium, and The Netherlands.

[Edward Conard @EdwardConard]

US data since 1919 shows that volatility in building permits foreshadows financial market volatility. “Cities and states with more elastic housing supply consistently predict financial market downturns at 12-month horizons.”@cslapoint @CortesGustavoS
https://t.co/IEjLEHPRGh

[Adam Jorring @AdamJorring]

Call for papers for the very 1st UMass Amherst Finance Conference

https://t.co/WMYTEnATU7

The conference is on Friday, May 9, 2025

The deadline for submitting your paper is February 1

@econ_conf #econtwitter @UMassAmherst @IsenbergUMass

[Francesco Mazzola @francemazzola]

The call for paper of the 1st CCAxESCP Finance workshop is out! Please submit your best papers by Feb 15th, 2025. 📝Looking forward to this event in beautiful Turin! 🏫

[Gustavo S. Cortes @CortesGustavoS]

🚨 Excited to debut my new paper, "Housing Is the Financial Cycle: Evidence from 100 Years of Local Building Permits," joint with @CSLaPoint. We document that building permits predict financial market volatility across *a century* of U.S. economic history! https://t.co/ULD5o14ED5

[Deborah Lynn Blumberg @dlblumberg]

@YaleSOM's @cslapoint found in a new study that periods of rapid increases in building permits followed by quick declines predict subsequent booms and busts in both stock and bond markets.‌ #business #housing #Finance #stocks #financialmarkets https://t.co/2OfSmMsT2n

[Chongyu Wang @wang_chongyu]

We’re excited to host our annual research symposium with UF on March 20-22, 2025, focusing on housing economics and finance. Be sure to check out the CFP and submit your work by Dec 1.

Looking forward to seeing many of you in Tally!

[Cameron LaPoint @cslapoint]

@JayHyunEcon @UofR My alma mater and hometown! Hope you had a nice time

[Jenny Schuetz @jenny_schuetz]

Housing policy researchers! As you plan your fall schedule, don't forget that JHEC is doing a special issue on upzoning (exciting & timely topic). Nov 30 deadline. @coulsoncommaed & I are reviewing submissions as they arrive. Send us your awesome papers!
https://t.co/wm2X0FmjqP

[Cameron LaPoint @cslapoint]

This work grew out of a panel discussion at the Spring National Tax Association meeting. The paper will appear soon in the National Tax Journal, but in the meantime, you can find the details here 👉 https://t.co/7ef8ZdAFnk

[Cameron LaPoint @cslapoint]

📢NEW WP!📢 Property Tax Policy and Housing Affordability, joint w/Emily Horton, Byron Lutz, Nathan Seegert, and Jared Walczak.

Some new facts about the prevalence and use of local property tax relief policies and how these often make housing less affordable. 🧵👇 #econtwitter

[Cameron LaPoint @cslapoint]

Key takeaway: First-time homebuyers + renters 🏘️, who are more likely younger + lower-income, are least likely to benefit from property tax relief measures and often see affordability decrease.

On top of this, we hope our property tax atlas will spur more research in this area!