Anthony Yezer

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Anthony Yezer
NationalityAmerican
Academic career
Institution George Washington University
Field Real estate economics, Urban Economics, Labour economics
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology, London School of Economics and Political Science, Dartmouth College
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Anthony Marvin Yezer is a professor of economics at George Washington University in the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences. He has provided expert testimony for the United States Congress and Federal Trade Commission on sub-prime mortgage lending and trade regulation issues. [1] [2] [3] He is Director of the Center for Economic Research [4] and a Fellow of the Homer Hoyt School of Advanced Studies in Real Estate and Urban Economics. [5] He is also an affiliate of the Institute for International Economic Policy. [6]

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Education

Yezer received a B.S. from Dartmouth College, M.S. from London School of Economics and Political Science, and his PhD in Economics & Urban Studies from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was Rhodes Scholarship finalist and received a National Collegiate Athletic Association Scholar-Athlete Fellowship. [3]

Work

Yezer's research has merited inclusion in more than a dozen journals, and he serves as principal editor for the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association monograph series. He served on the National Research Council's Panel on Disaster Needs in the Social Sciences which led to the publication of The Economic Consequences of a Catastrophic Earthquake. [7]

In 2013, Yezer published the textbook, "Economics of Crime and Enforcement". [8] "This text is designed for use in a course on the economics of crime in a variety of settings. Assuming only a previous course in basic microeconomics, this innovative book is strongly linked to the new theoretical and empirical journal literature. Showing the power of microeconomics in action, Yezer covers a wide array of topics. There are chapters on the following topics: benefit-cost and the imprisonment decision, enforcement games, juvenile crime, private enforcement, economics of 3 strikes law, broken windows strategies, police profiling, and crime in developing countries. There are also separate chapters on guns, drugs, and capital punishment."

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References

  1. "March 2004 Testimony" (PDF).
  2. "March 2008 Testimony (Video)". YouTube .
  3. 1 2 "Yezer".
  4. "Center for Economic Research University Website".
  5. "Hoyt School of Advanced Studies". Archived from the original on 1999-02-19.
  6. "Institute for International Economic Policy".
  7. The Economic Consequences of a Catastrophic Earthquake. National Academies Press. February 1992. ISBN   9780309046398.
  8. Yezer, Anthony (2014). Economics of Crime and Enforcement. M.E. Sharpe, Incorporated. ISBN   978-0765637109.