Matthew E. Kahn

Matthew E. Kahn is a Provost Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins University. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago and has held visiting positions at Harvard, Stanford’s Hoover Institution, and Tufts’ Fletcher School. His research focuses on urban and environmental economics, specifically climate change adaptation, natural disaster economics, and the financial impacts of climate risk on housing and commercial real estate. Recent work includes a nationwide field experiment on housing market expectations of climate change and analyses of firm resilience and flood protection policy. He is a Senior Fellow at USC’s Schaeffer Center and a Research Fellow at IZA.