Researchers & Universities
BlackBox Logic, LLC is helping top academic researchers gain better insight into U.S. and international residential real estate and capital markets. BlackBox has entered agreements with several prominent academic institutions and faculty members, including:
- Columbia Business School
- E.J. Ourso College of Business at Louisiana State University
- Dr. Stuart Gabriel with Richard S. Ziman Center for Real Estate at the UCLA Anderson School of Management
- Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
- National University of Singapore's Institute of Real Estate Studies
- Faculty at the Wharton School
BlackBox Logic offers academic pricing to help advance research. BlackBox also offers flexible data delivery options, opening access to premium loan-level data to more users. One unique method for receiving BlackBox Logic's data is through the proprietary web-based user interface, Crystal Logic (link to CL page). The Crystal Logic application is a historical data analytics and reporting tool that allows users to easily select virtually any imaginable set of loans from the non-conforming universe and quickly generate graphs, tables, and reports to help with analysis, reporting, and other client workflow.
The following are quotes/ reports created by academic researchers utilizing BlackBox Logic's comprehensive and quality data solutions:
“I believe BlackBox Logic offers the most comprehensive, accurate, granular and timely data on non-agency mortgage loans and securities today," said Michael Youngblood, co-founder and principal of asset management firm Five Bridges Advisors LLC, whose team has thoroughly evaluated BBx Data. "The data set is larger than their leading competitors. They have spent far more energy in evaluating raw source data and creating fields that cleanse or filter it; they provide a much greater number of fields that can only enhance their customers' use of the data; and it is a larger dataset than their competitors."
In January 2011, Columbia Business School cited BlackBox Logic data in a groundbreaking report on strategic defaults. Researchers examined the effect of news about modification programs on delinquent homeowners' behavior.
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“The team at BlackBox Logic has introduced important advances to the market that are progressing our understanding of borrower behavior and other mortgage trends," said Christopher Mayer, Senior Vice Dean and Paul Milstein Professor of Real Estate at Columbia Business School.
A February 24, 2011 Wall Street Journal op-ed by Dr. Joseph Mason proposed, based in part on BlackBox data research, that the foreclosure delays envisioned by the proposed CFPB and the state attorneys general could be expected to detract from US economic growth.
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“BlackBox Logic data is already the basis for over a dozen research papers and several dissertations at LSU" said Dr. Joseph Mason, Hermann Moyse, Jr./Louisiana Bankers Association Endowed Professor of Banking, Louisiana State University and Senior Fellow, The Wharton School. "The ability to drill down from deal-level to loan-level data facilitates not only real estate research, but also research on the links between loan performance, pool performance, and the value of MBS."
Using BlackBox Logic's data, Stuart Gabriel, Arden Realty Chair and Professor of Finance, UCLA Anderson School of Management Director, Richard S. Ziman Center for Real Estate at UCLA stated, "We are working on a number of projects seeking to understand the changes in behavior of mortgage buyers during the recent period of boom and bust in the housing market."
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