Business at Berry College

Melissa Yeoh
Assistant Professor of Economics

Department: Economics
Phone: (706) 238-5893
Campus Box:5024
Location:Green 214
E-mail: myeoh@berry.edu

Vita
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Education:
  • Ph.D. Economics 2007, Clemson University
  • M.A. Economics 2004, Vanderbilt University,
  • B.B.A. Economics 1998, University of Mississippi  

Teaching Interest:
  • Econometrics
  • Environmental Economics
  • Public Economics

Research Interest:
  • Antitrust Regulation and Industrial Organization
  • Public Economics and Public Choice
  • Environmental Amenities and Conservation Easements  

Field Experience:
  • Senior Associate in Antitrust Litigation, LECG,LLC - Washington, DC, February 2000 - July 2002

 


Selected Publications:

Publications:

  • “A Public Choice Analysis of Congressional Franking,” Public Finance Review, forthcoming (with S. Tyler Edwards and E. Frank Stephenson).
  • “The Private Provision of Public Goods: Homes on Golf Courses,” Journal of Private Enterprise, forthcoming (with Frank F. Limehouse and Robert E. McCormick).
  • “Television, Code Law, and Integrated Markets,” Public Choice. 142:3-4 (March 2010), 355-361.

 

Working papers:

  • “Trusts and Taxes: The Effects of Conservation Easements on Local Property Tax Revenues,” with Walter N. Thurman.
  • “Relative Prices and Family Values: An Application during World War II,” with Robert E. McCormick and Mason S. Gerety.
  • “Antitrust and Politics: Presidential Party Control, Congressional Oversight or Bureaucratic Discretion?”
  • “Do U.S. Manufacturing Firm Sizes in 1850-1880 Follow the Zipf Distribution?”
  • “Financial Development and Economic Growth in a Panel of Former British Colonies: 1875-1993.”
  • “Is Public Expenditure Productive? Evidence from the Manufacturing Sector in 45 U.S. Cities, 1880-1920,” with Dean Stansel.

 

Invited conferences:

  • Colloquium on “Markets, Freedom, and the Environment,” co-sponsored by PERC and the Liberty Fun, Big Sky, MT, June 21-24, 2007
  • Colloquium on “Liberty and Responsibility in Adam Smith,” sponsored by the Liberty Fun, Holland, MI, August 1-7, 2008
  • Colloquium on “Monetary Freedom and Liberal Order,” sponsored by the Liberty fund, Indianapolis, IN, October 2-5, 2008
 


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