Reading lists for ph.d. seminars in real estate

Abstract

How do real estate faculty members compile reading lists for doctoral seminars? While there is no particular method that is commonly used, the variety of topics and large number of published articles suggest that establishing such a procedure may be long overdue. We use latent semantic analysis to examine 2,526 articles published in the core real estate journals- Real Estate Economics, the Journal of Real Estate Research, and the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics-from 1973 to 2010 and categorize them into 25 topics. Corresponding reading lists are compiled including the 100 most relevant, recent, and heavily cited papers.