Faculty Profile

Andrey Pavlov

Associate Professor
Academic Chair, Master of Financial Risk Management
B.Sc. (Sonoma), M.B.A. (Thunderbird), M.A., Ph.D. (UCLA).

Burnaby Phone: 778-782-5835
Segal Phone: 778-782-7922
Burnaby Office: WMC 3331
Segal Office: Segal 4915

Email Address:
Website: http://www.sfu.ca/~apavlov

Biography

Andrey D. Pavlov specializes in real estate finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he is visiting associate professor of real estate, and at the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, where he is associate professor of finance. His research is on property valuation, financing, and risk management. He has also worked on the modeling of aggressive lending practices, risk management for publicly traded real estate companies, mortgage and equity securitization, and mortgage default risk modeling using non-parametric methods and spatial statistics.

Dr. Pavlov earned his Ph.D. from the Anderson School at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a fellow of the Zinman Real Estate Center at UCLA. He is also a winner of the Homer Hoyt Advanced Studies Institute Best Dissertation Award (2000), a post-doctoral honoree of the Homer Hoyt Advanced Studies Institute (2005), and a trustee of the Simon Fraser University academic pension plan.

Professor Pavlov has a wide range of academic and non-academic publications. In 2005 he was invited to join the editorial board of the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics. He is a sought-after speaker, author, and consultant for both the public and private sectors. He has recently consulted for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation, major mortgage lenders, banks, insurers and hedge funds.

Specialization and Research Interests

Real options and their application to portfolio choice, strategic management, real estate markets and natural resource management; non-parametric methods, spatial statistics; real estate finance and valuation.