Francisco Amaral

Welcome! I’m an Assistant Professor, non-tenure track, at the Department of Finance of the University of Zurich and at the Swiss Finance Institute. I’m also a member of the Center for Urban & Real Estate Management (CUREM) and a research fellow at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. I have a PhD in Economics from the University of Bonn.

My research lies at the intersection of financial and urban economics, with a particular emphasis on the structure of local housing markets and its influence on the spatial distribution of housing prices and returns.

I co-organize the Online Spatial and Urban Seminar (OSUS).

I am a co-founder of the German Real Estate Index (Greix), a project dedicated to enhancing transparency in the German housing market. We provide a range of high-quality real estate indicators, tracking the evolution of housing markets in various German cities, all free of charge. For more information, please visit www.greix.de.