Wayne R. Archer is Emeritus Professor at the University of Florida. Previously, he was the William D. Hussey Professor at the University of Florida and the Executive Director of the Bergstrom Center for Real Estate Studies. He received a Masters in economics from Wichita State University (1968) and a Ph.D. in economics from Indiana University (1974). He has been a faculty member at the University of Florida since 1971. From 1979 through 1981, he served as a visiting researcher at the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. His research publications include articles on office markets, house price indices, mortgage prepayment, mortgage pricing, and mortgage default risk.
Professor Archer is a member of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, where he has served on the board of directors, and also is a member of the American Real Estate Society. He served on the editorial board of Real Estate Economics. He is a Fellow of the Homer Hoyt Institute.
Professor Archer taught in the University of Florida’s distance MBA program and has worked in industry education throughout his academic career, including service as the educational consultant to the Florida Real Estate Commission from 1985 to 1999. Among additional roles, he served as a regular faculty member in programs of the Mortgage Bankers Association of America, in the Institute of Financial Education affiliated with the U.S. League of Savings and Loan Associations, and. more recently, with Freddie Mac. In addition, he has provided consulting services to industry and government from time to time throughout his career, and also serves from time to time as a consultant and advisor for real estate graduate programs in other universities.
Additional information on Professor Archer is available at http://warrington.ufl.edu/directory/person/5371/.
