EMERALD was proud to be a sponsor of the First World Congress of the International Real Estate Society in Alaska

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(2001), "EMERALD was proud to be a sponsor of the First World Congress of the International Real Estate Society in Alaska", Property Management, Vol. 19 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/pm.2001.11319eac.001

EMERALD was proud to be a sponsor of the First World Congress of the International Real Estate Society in Alaska

Girdwood, Alaska, 25-28 July 2001

The First World Congress of the International Real Estate Society was a great success. Highlights include keynote addresses by Andrew Baum, University of Reading, Jon H. Zehner, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Karl-Werne Schulte, President of the International Real Estate Society and Jim Gottstein, Law Offices of James B. Gottstein. A total of 138 delegates, from 14 countries, attended the meetings. A total of 72 papers were given in 19 paper sessions while ten panel sessions comprising of 40 panelists rounded out the schedule. Additionally, Art Schwartz arranged some fantastic social events including two awards luncheons, an Alaskan mountain top dinner that included a ride on the tram and sunset viewing (Plates 1 and 2) as well as another dinner on Friday night that was followed by a birthday celebration in the bar that culminated in an earthquake! Additionally, a few lucky delegates also managed to find a few black bears during their Friday evening stroll!

Awards were given at both luncheons. On Thursday, the Bert Kruijt IRES Service Award was presented to Art Shwartz from the University of South Florida, the IRES Achievement Award went to Alastair Adair of the University of Ulster and a new award, the IRES Corporate Excellence Award was presented to the Royal Institution of Charted Surveyors and received by Stephen Brown.

Plate 1 Alyeska resort, Girdwood, Alaska - venue for the First World Congress, IRES

Plate 2 Chris Manning of the Loyola Marymount University, with Kerry Renolds at the mountain-top Alaskan dinner

At the Friday lunch, Norm Miller, on behalf of the Homer Hoyt Advanced Studies Institute, presented the best paper award. Norm, Kerry Vandell and Jeffrey Fisher had the difficult task of reviewing close to 20 manuscripts and choosing the one that they felt was the best. This award went to Patrick Wilson and Ralf Zurbrugge for their paper entitled "Impulse response and the international inter-relatedness of real estate markets".

The University of Reading received a six-pack of beer because they brought the most academics to the meeting (six plus two visiting professors). In fairness, the European Business School should have received a case of beer given that they bought 24 delegates to the meeting but not all were academics and we could not find a case of beer!

Nick French, Editor of Journal of Property Investment & Finance, and Frances Plimmer, Editor of Property Management represented their journals.

Winner of the Emerald prize draw was Professor Steven Plant, Graduate School of Business, University of Haifa, Israel. He wins a one year personal subscription to Journal of Property Investment and Finance.

All conference papers are currently available online at http://www.ucd.ie/~gsb/ires/