Stuart S. Rosenthal is the Maxwell Advisory Board Professor of Economics at Syracuse University. He is also a Senior Research Associate in the university’s Center for Policy Research. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics (1986) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a B.A. in Economics (1980) from Bowdoin College. Before joining Syracuse University in 1999, Professor Rosenthal held positions in the Economics Department at Virginia Tech University,  the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration at the University of British Columbia, and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve  System. His research is in the area of Urban Economics, Real Estate Finance and Housing, and State and Local Public Economics. This includes work on a wide range of housing and mortgage issues, the determinants of urban renewal and decay, the influence of agglomeration on productivity, and entrepreneurship. His work has appeared in leading journals including the American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Urban Economics, and Real Estate Economics. Professor Rosenthal serves on the editorial boards for a number of academic journals.  He is a Fellow of the Homer Hoyt School of Advanced Studies in Real Estate and Urban Economics and a Fellow of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI). In 2013, Professor Rosenthal received the RSAI Walter Isard Award for Scholarly Achievement. In 2013-2015 he served as 2nd Vice President, 1st Vice President, and then President of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA). He served on the Council of the Urban Economic Association (UEA), 2009-2015. Since 2007, Professor Rosenthal has been serving (with William Strange) as Managing Editor of the Journal of Urban Economics.