Prof. William Goetzmann Receives Inaugural Seiler Behavioral Research Commendation
Goetzmann is the first recipient of a commendation established by the American Real Estate Society to honor scholars who have made outstanding contributions to behavioral real estate research.
William Goetzmann, the Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Management Studies, has received the Michael J. Seiler Behavioral Research Commendation from the American Real Estate Society in recognition of his contributions to the field of behavioral real estate.
Established last year, the award is named for Michael J. Seiler, a professor of real estate and finance at the Raymond A. Mason School of Business at William & Mary who has helped to create the relatively new field of behavioral real estate. The award honors an academic who has published a substantial body of relevant research over a period of several years.
Goetzmann has published research on a wide variety of financial topics, including the housing market and commercial real estate investing. He currently serves as the faculty director of the International Center for Finance at SOM.
Describing Goetzmann as a “humble scholar and consummate gentleman,” Seiler said that the award reflects his track record of publishing “behavioral studies in all the top journals over several decades.”
“I cannot think of a more deserving winner of the inaugural award,” Seiler said.
Goetzmann studied art history and archaeology at Yale College before earning an MBA at Yale SOM and a PhD in operations research at the university. He first joined the Yale SOM faculty in 1994. Outside his academic work, Goetzmann serves as the editor of the Financial Analysts Journal and has published several general-interest books on financial history, including Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible and The Great Mirror of Folly: Finance, Culture, and the Great Crash of 1720.
