Daniel Lane

Ph.D. Student

Daniel completed a B.S. in economics and a B.A. in French with a minor in Asian Studies (Japanese concentration) at Auburn University (Class of 2022) in Auburn, Alabama. His past work as a research assistant to a professor at Auburn focused on the propagation mechanisms of monetary shocks in the real economy during the Great Depression. For the past two years, he has worked in Washington, D.C. as a research assistant at the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the regulator and conservator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. There, his research has mainly focused on time-to-sale gradients in urban residential real estate markets. Currently, he plans to continue studying issues in urban economics at Vanderbilt. He is especially interested in housing, land use, and any questions that lend themselves to spatial methods.