Abukar Warsame
Doctor, PhD
Telephone: 08-790 69 12
E-mail: abukar.warsame@abe.kth.se
Visiting address: Brinellvägen 1, rum 2162
Teaching Experience: Previous and Current
o Urban and Regional Economic (Head lecture)
o Commercial Real Estate Investment (Co-lecturer)
o Real Estate Finance and Economics course, Chalmers (Co-lecturer)
o Real Estate Market Analysis and Development (teaching assistant)
o Real Estate Valuation (teaching assistant)
o Introductory Economics and Quantitative Methods (teaching assistant)
o Facilities Management (coordinator)
o Real Estate Investment Analysis (Visiting lecturer in Dubai Real Estate Institute, Dubai, UAE - 2007)
Coordinator of Master’s Program in Real Estate Development and Financial Services
Supervisor for a number of master’s thesis students
Research areas
Doctoral Research, KTH – 2011
Title: Quality improvement methods for transport infrastructure projects
Approximately 25 years ago, major construction contractors replaced traditional client/owner control system of public finance construction projects with quality assurance systems managed by the contractors themselves. The question is whether this change really improved the quality of the projects.
Licentiate, KTH – 2006
Title: Housing construction, supplier structure, and foreign competition
Examining the reasons behind the high construction cost increases observed in the big regions compare to medium or small regions of Sweden. A survey that explores factors that developers perceive as the sources of construction cost disparities was conducted. The results of the survey was evaluated against the theoretical findings of the subject matter specially, the role of supplier structure, client-contractor relationship, and foreign firms participation was examined.
Masters Research, KTH – 1999
Title: The risk of indirect investment in real estate: an application of the Capital Asset Pricing Model
The focus of our study was to evaluate the risk level of investing in indirectly real estate companies listed in the Swedish stock exchange and how the returns commensurate the risk taken by the investors.
List of Publications
Warsame, A., Wilhelmsson, M. and Borg, L. (2010) The effect of subsidy on housing construction in various regions of Sweden. Journal of European Real Estate Research, Vol. 3(3), pp. 228-244.
Warsame, A. (2009) Organizational modes in the residential building sector in Sweden. Construction Management and Economics, 27(2), 153-163
Warsame, A. (2009) Organisational change in the residential building sector. Performance Improvement in Construction Management (eds. Atkin and Borgbrant).
