[1] He was a senior fellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies [2] at Harvard University and was president of the Boston Economic Club 2011-12.
He served as a member of the boards of directors of the Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation (MGIC), Century Bank, The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association.
At Harvard University, he served as head tutor (director of undergraduate studies) and won the Allyn Young Teaching Prize.
Case’s research on housing markets and prices began with a New England Economic Review article published in 1986 entitled “The Market for Single Family Homes in Boston: 1979-1985.”[4] In that paper Professor Case constructed a crude “repeat sales” index to isolate appreciation from mix effects in measuring changes in house values.
The model presented in that paper showed that fundamentals explained only a small part of home price movements in the Northeast between 1979 and 1985.
In 1985, Case met Yale University economist Robert Shiller, and they started out on a joint venture that would lead to over a dozen coauthored papers and essays.
In 1988, they responded to a booming housing market in California by developing a survey of the expectations and attitudes of homebuyers in four cities: San Francisco, Anaheim (Orange County, CA), Milwaukee, and Boston.
[10]In more recent years, Case has published papers on the wealth effect of home price increases with Robert Shiller and John Quigley at The University of California in Berkeley.