Bryan Weber

Assistant Professor

His academic background includes a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and visiting professorship at The College of William and Mary. With notable publications on topics such as the sharing economy's impact on urban crime and the effects of Vision Zero's new speed limits on safety in NYC, his research explores the intersections of crime, transportation, and economic behavior. Associate Professor Weber actively contributes to the research community through his role as an Associate Editor at Evaluation Review (ERX) and the Journal of Asian Business and Economic Studies (JABES).

Degrees

PhD, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee  

Scholarship and Publications
  • Bedsworth, Fredrick, Weber, Bryan, & Willardsen, Kevin (Accepted 2025). Evaluating the effectiveness of freeway speed cameras: Evidence from a natural experiment in Dayton, Ohio. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice.
  • Weber, Bryan S., Moghtaderi, Ali, & Cappellari, Paolo (Accepted 2025). Effects of congestion surcharges: From ridership to competition and safety. Economics of Transportation.
  • Duka, Zoga & Weber, Bryan S. (Accepted  2025). The effect of mandatory salary revelations on job postings. Economics Letters.
  • Gensby, Emil, Weber, Bryan S., & Christiansen, Anders H. (2025). Investigating Efficiency of Free-for-All Models in a Matchmaking Context. IEEE Transactions on Games, 17(2), 374–383.
  • Nguyen, Tam L., Weber, Bryan S., & Huynh, Luu Duc Toan (2024). Time Preferences and Lunar New Year: An Experiment. The BE Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 24(4), 1307–1319.
  • Brodeur, Abel, Mikola, Derek, Cook, Nikolai, et al. (2024). Mass Reproducibility and Replicability: A New Hope. IZA Discussion Paper. (One of 347 authors.)
  • Weber, Bryan (2024). The Sharing Economy and Urban Crime. Cities, 154.
  • Amos-Binks, Adam & Weber, Bryan S. (2023). Risk management: anticipating and reacting in StarCraft. In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 19(1), 13–22.
  • Weber, Bryan S. & Cappellari, Paolo (2022). Assessing the Impact of Ferry Transit on Urban Crime. Urban Affairs Review, 59(6), 1950–1972.
  • Cappellari, Paolo & Weber, Bryan S. (2022). An Analysis of the New York City Traffic Volume, Vehicle Collisions, and Safety Under COVID-19. Journal of Safety Research, 83, 57–65.
  • Weber, Bryan S. & Huynh, Toan Luu Duc (2022). COVID-19 challenges and firm responses: Analysis of a city-wide census in a developing country. Managerial and Decision Economics, 43(6), 2184–2195.
  • Christiansen, Anders H., Gensby, Emil, & Weber, Bryan S. (2021). Deployment of Causal Effect Estimation in Live Games of Dota 2. IEEE Transactions on Games.
  • Le, Lam Hoang Viet, Huynh, Toan Luu Duc, Weber, Bryan S., & Nguyen, Bao Khac Quoc (2023). Different firm responses to the COVID-19 pandemic shocks: machine-learning evidence on the Vietnamese labor market. International Journal of Emerging Markets, 18(9), 2501–2522.
  • Mammen, Kristin, Shim, Hyoung Suk, & Weber, Bryan S. (2019). Vision Zero: Speed Limit Reduction and Traffic Injury Prevention in New York City. Eastern Economic Journal, 46, 282–300.
  • Heywood, John S. & Weber, Bryan S. (2019). University-provided transit and crime in an urban neighborhood. The Annals of Regional Science, 62(3), 467–495.
  • Mohtadi, Hamid & Weber, Bryan S. (2019). Terrorism risk and optimal policy response: theory and empirics. Indian Growth and Development Review, 13(2), 449–458.
  • Weber, Bryan S. (2019). Uber and urban crime. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 130, 496–506. Pergamon.
  • Christiansen, Anders Harboell, Gensby, Emil, & Weber, Bryan S. (2019). Resolving Simultaneity Bias: Using Features to Estimate Causal Effects in Competitive Games. In 2019 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG).
  • Mohtadi, Hamid & Weber, Bryan S. (2020). Catastrophe and Rational Policy: Case of National Security. Economic Inquiry, 59(1), 140–161.
  • Weber, Bryan S. (2018). Standard Economic Models in Nonstandard Settings--StarCraft: Brood War. In 2018 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG), 1–8.
  • Weber, Bryan S. (2014). Can safe ride programs reduce urban crime? Regional Science and Urban Economics, 48, 1–11.

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Last Updated: 09.03.2025

Bryan Weber

Contact Information

Office: Building 3N Room 213C
Fax: 718.982.2965