George I. Treyz holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University and a B.A. from Princeton. He is also Professor Emeritus in Economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is author of the book Regional Economic Modeling and has authored or co-authored over 25 papers published in professional journals such as the American Economic Review, The Review of Economic Statistics, and the International Regional Science Review. In 1980, Dr. Treyz founded Regional Economic Models, Inc. (REMI) to develop and implement regional macro-economic models for public and private clients. These models are used for forecasting and policy analysis by major U.S. cities, a large majority of U.S. state governments, federal government agencies, universities, and both large and small area government agencies. More recently, Dr. Treyz has brought his modeling expertise and methodology to Europe. He co-authored a report assessing the economic effect of E.U. investments for the European Commission and has overseen the implementation of regional economic policy analysis models in the U.K, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, and Belgium.

Articles Authored or Co-authored by Dr. George Treyz

“The Evaluation of Programs Aimed at Local and Regional Development: Methodology and Twenty Years of Experience Using REMI Policy Insight^®.” Evaluating Local Economic and Employment Development. Ed. Alistair Nolan. Paris: OECD, 2004. 151-190. with Frederick Treyz.

“An Evolutionary New Economic Geography Model,” (with Frederick Treyz and Wei Fan), Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 40, No. 4, 2000, pp. 671-695.

"Predicting the Local Economic Effects of Proposed Trip-Reduction Rules: The Case of San Diego," (with R. Bradley, L. Petraglia and A.M. Rose), Environment and Planning A, Vol. 28, 1996, pp. 1315-1327.

"The Dynamics of U.S. Internal Migration" (with D.S. Rickman, G.L. Hunt, and M.J. Greenwood), The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. LXXV, No. 2, May 1993, pp. 209-214.

"Alternative Labor Market Closures in a Regional Forecasting and Simulation Model," (with D. Rickman), Growth and Change, Vol. 24, Winter, 1993, pp. 32-49.

"Multiregional Stock Adjustment Equations of Residential and Nonresidential Investment" (with D.S. Rickman and G. Shao), Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 33, No. 2, 1993, pp. 207-219.

"Building U.S. National and Regional Forecasting and Simulation Models" (with G. Shao), Economics Systems Research, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1993, pp. 63-77.