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Abdullah Yavas holds the Robert E. Wangard Real Estate Chair and is the department chair of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin School of Business. Previously, he was the Elliott Professor of Business Administration and the research director of the Institute for Real Estate Studies in the Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State University, where he received the Fred Brand Award for Outstanding Teaching, Smeal College's highest undergraduate teaching award. His research focuses on the economics of intermediation broadly defined with a special focus on real estate brokerage. His research interests include real estate brokerage, mortgage contracts, real estate auctions, economics of information, and experimental economics. Yavas has authored or co-authored more than 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals on real estate, finance, and economics. The results of his research have been cited in some of the nationally known publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Time, Money, BusinessWeek, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Boston Sunday Globe. He has consulted for mortgage companies and real estate investment trusts. Yavas is a world-renowned economist. In 2001, he made the World's Top 500 Economists list, according to the number of articles published, prepared by Tom Coupé and sponsored by the European Economic Association. Yavas is the editor of Real Estate Economics and a Fellow of Real Estate Research Institute. Yavas also serves on the Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey. He holds a B.A. in business from Bogazici University and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Iowa.