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2705
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1505

Overview

Abdullah Yavas is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States and has established a research profile centered on economics, econometrics, and finance. Their work spans several subfields including economics and econometrics, finance, global and planetary change, atmospheric science, and sociology and political science.

Their research primarily addresses topics in housing market and economics, housing, finance, and neoliberalism, banking stability, regulation, and efficiency, insurance and financial risk management, flood risk assessment and management, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, and economic and environmental valuation.

Notable recent papers by Abdullah Yavas include:

  • The Impact of Distant Hurricane on Local Housing Markets, 2021, The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics
  • Social Capital and Mortgage Delinquency, 2020, The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics
  • Price Dynamics in Public and Private Commercial Real Estate Markets, 2020, The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics
  • To accept or not to accept: Optimal strategy for sellers in real estate, 2020, Real Estate Economics
  • Private mortgage securitization and loss given default, 2022, Real Estate Economics

Yavas's frequent collaborators include Lingxiao Li, Shuang Zhu, Lü Fang, Erdem Ucar, and Ying Fan, with multiple coauthored works contributing to their shared research interests.

Their publications are mainly found in the following venues:

  • The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics
  • Real Estate Economics
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Banking & Finance
  • 28th Annual European Real Estate Society Conference

Best Publications

  • The Strategic Role of Listing Price in Marketing Real Estate: Theory and Evidence

    Abdullah Yavas;Shiawee Yang

  • Conflicts between principals and agents: evidence from residential brokerage

    R.C. Rutherford;T.M. Springer;A. Yavas

  • Adverse selection in mortgage securitization

    Sumit Agarwal;Yan Chang;Abdullah Yavas

  • Middlemen in Bilateral Search Markets

    Abdullah Yavaş

  • A Simple Search and Bargaining Model of Real Estate Markets

    Abdullah Yavaş

  • Marketmakers versus matchmakers

    Abdullah Yavaş

  • Incentives and Performance in Real Estate Brokerage

    Henry J. Munneke;Abdullah Yavas

  • Real Options: Experimental Evidence

    Abdullah Yavas;C. F. Sirmans

  • Economics of Brokerage: An Overview

    Abdullah Yavaş

  • The effects of the internet on marketing residential real estate

    James Scott Ford;Ronald C. Rutherford;Abdullah Yavas

  • Adjustable and Fixed Rate Mortgages as a Screening Mechanism for Default Risk

    Lisa L. Posey;Abdullah Yavas

  • An Experimental Analysis of the Impact of Intermediaries on the Outcome of Bargaining Games

    Abdullah Yavas;Thomas J. Miceli;C.F. Sirmans

  • Evidence of Information Asymmetries in the Market for Residential Condominiums

    Ronald C. Rutherford;Thomas M. Springer;Abdullah Yavas

  • Incentive effects and overcrowding in tournaments: An experimental analysis

    Donald Vandegrift;Abdullah Yavas;Paul M. Brown

  • Auction versus Negotiated Sale: Evidence from Real Estate Sales

    Yuen Leng Chow;Isa E. Hafalir;Abdullah Yavas

  • Men, women, and competition: An experimental test of behavior

    Donald Vandegrift;Abdullah Yavas

  • An experimental comparison of two search models

    Eric Abrams;Martin Sefton;Abdullah Yavas

  • Search and Trading in Intermediated Markets

    Abdullah Yavaş

  • The Impacts of Contract Type on Broker Performance

    Ronald C. Rutherford;Thomas M. Springer;Abdullah Yavas

  • Do Riskier Borrowers Borrow More

    David M. Harrison;Thomas G. Noordewier;Abdullah Yavas

  • Real Options: Experimental Evidence

    C. F. Sirmans;Abdullah Yavas

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Sefton
Martin Sefton University of Nottingham
C. F. Sirmans
C. F. Sirmans Florida State University
Elena Katok
Elena Katok The University of Texas at Dallas
Brent W. Ambrose
Brent W. Ambrose Pennsylvania State University
Sumit Agarwal
Sumit Agarwal National University of Singapore
Thomas J. Miceli
Thomas J. Miceli University of Connecticut
Charles M. Kahn
Charles M. Kahn University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Utpal Bhattacharya
Utpal Bhattacharya Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

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