Dr. Karl E. Case is an Emeritus Professor of Economics at Wellesley College, where he taught for 34 years and served as Department Chair on several occasions.
He is a Senior Fellow at Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies and a founding partner of Fiserv Case Shiller Weiss, the real estate research firm that produces the S&P Case-Shiller Index of home prices. He is a member of Standard and Poor’s Index Advisory Committee, as well as the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s Academic Advisory Board, alongside Ray Fair.

He was Head Tutor in Economics (Director of Undergraduate Studies) at Harvard before coming to Wellesley, where he won the Allyn Young Teaching Prize.
He served on the AEA’s Committee on Economic Education and was an Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives and the Journal of Economic Education.

Professor Case graduated from Miami University with a B.A. in 1968, served in the Army for three years, and earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1976. His research has focused on real estate, housing, and government finance.
He has published numerous articles in professional journals and is the author or coauthor of five books, including Principles of Economics, Economics and Tax Policy, and Property Taxation: The Need for Reform.

His research has focused on real estate markets and prices for the past 25 years.
Many of his professional articles attempt to isolate the causes and consequences of boom and bust cycles, as well as their relationship to regional and national economic performance.