Professor François Ortalo-Magné is the Albert O. Nicholas Dean of the Wisconsin School of Business.

His research interests include housing, agricultural land markets and policies, and international real estate.

Ortalo-Magné has contributed to the understanding of the housing market through his theoretical work on dynamic equilibrium housing models and through the collection and analysis of novel data sets that provide unique insights into the housing transaction process. He is also interested in the drivers of farmland prices and has written extensively on agricultural policy. He is called upon regularly by policymakers for contributions to housing and agricultural policy debates.

His research has been published in the Review of Economic Studies, the European Economic Review, the Journal of Urban Economics, Economic Policy, the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, and the Journal of Housing Economics. He has also written a book on agricultural policy reform that was published both in French and Japanese.

He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Housing Economics and on the board of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association.

At Wisconsin, he leads efforts to expose students to the world of international real estate both through his teaching and international field trips. In 2010, he led the creation of the innovative Global Real Estate Master (GREM) that combines the strengths of three top-ranked international business schools with the real estate expertise at the Wisconsin School of Business.

Prior to joining the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ortalo-Magné was in the Department of Economics at the London School of Economics. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Minnesota.