2026 Brent W. Ambrose: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	39	2436	2205	1373	1208	132	5952

Overview

Brent W. Ambrose is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with significant contributions in subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Accounting, Political Science and International Relations, and Gender Studies.

The main topics in Brent W. Ambrose's body of work cover a diverse range of areas related to housing and finance. Key themes include:

Housing Market and Economics
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
Local Government Finance and Decentralization
Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
Fiscal Policies and Political Economy

Their recent scholarly output includes these publications:

"Does Borrower and Broker Race Affect the Cost of Mortgage Credit?" (2020), published in Review of Financial Studies
"Homeownership and taxes: How the TCJA altered the tax code's treatment of housing" (2022), published in Real Estate Economics
"Housing Rents and Inflation Rates" (2022), published in Journal of Money Credit and Banking
"Did the Paycheck Protection Program Help Small Businesses? Evidence from Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities" (2024), published in American Economic Journal Economic Policy (co-authored with Sumit Agarwal)
"Minimum wage increases and eviction risk" (2021), published in Journal of Urban Economics (co-authored with Sumit Agarwal)

Brent W. Ambrose has collaborated frequently with a group of coauthors including:

Maxence Valentin
Luis A. Lopez
Sumit Agarwal
James Conklin
Liu Ee Chia

Their research has appeared predominantly in the SSRN Electronic Journal, where they have 15 publications. Other publication venues include:

The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics
Review of Financial Studies
Real Estate Economics
Journal of Money Credit and Banking

This profile reflects a focus on housing market dynamics, fiscal policies, and financial systems, with an interdisciplinary approach integrating economics, finance, political science, and gender studies.

Best Publications

The Role of Asset Structure, Ownership Structure, and Takeover Defenses in Determining Acquisition Likelihood

Brent W. Ambrose;William L. Megginson

576
Citations
Does Regulatory Capital Arbitrage, Reputation, or Asymmetric Information Drive Securitization?

Brent William Ambrose;Michael Lacour-Little;Anthony B. Sanders

317
Citations
REIT Organizational Structure and Operating Characteristics

Brent Ambrose;Peter Linneman

217
Citations
House Prices and Fundamentals: 355 Years of Evidence

Brent W. Ambrose;Piet Eichholtz;Thies Lindenthal

207
Citations
Modeling the Conditional Probability of Foreclosure in the Context of Single‐Family Mortgage Default Resolutions

Brent William Ambrose;Charles A. Capone

196
Citations
Commercial Mortgage-backed Securities: Prepayment and Default *

Brent W. Ambrose;Anthony B. Sanders

190
Citations
Pricing mortgage default and foreclosure delay

Brent W. Ambrose;Richard J. Buttimer;Charles A. Capone

172
Citations
The Effect of Conforming Loan Status on Mortgage Yield Spreads: A Loan Level Analysis

Brent W. Ambrose;Michael LaCour-Little;Anthony B. Sanders

165
Citations
Real Estate and Economies of Scale: The Case of REITs

Brent W. Ambrose;Michael J. Highfield;Peter D. Linneman

157
Citations
The Fractal Structure of Real Estate Investment Trust Returns: The Search for Evidence of Market Segmentation and Nonlinear Dependency

Brent W. Ambrose;Esther Ancel;Mark D. Griffiths

154
Citations
Factors Influencing Capitalization Rates

Brent Ambrose;Hugh Nourse

138
Citations
REIT Economies of Scale: Fact or Fiction?

Brent W. Ambrose;Steven R. Ehrlich;William T. Hughes;Susan M. Wachter

130
Citations
Embedded Options in the Mortgage Contract

Brent W. Ambrose;Richard J. Buttimer

126
Citations
Cost-benefit analysis of single-family foreclosure alternatives

Brent W. Ambrose;Charles A. Capone

124
Citations
Credit Lines and Credit Utilization

Sumit Agarwal;Brent W. Ambrose;Chunlin Liu

122
Citations
Comovement After Joining an Index: Spillovers of Nonfundamental Effects

Brent W. Ambrose;Dong Wook Lee;Joe Peek

114
Citations
An Analysis of the Factors Affecting Light Industrial Property Valuation

Brent Ambrose

112
Citations
Optimal Put Exercise: An Empirical Examination of Conditions for Mortgage Foreclosure

Brent W. Ambrose;Charles A. Capone;Yongheng Deng

108
Citations
The Hazard Rates of First and Second Defaults

Brent W. Ambrose;Charles A. Capone

106
Citations
The role of soft information in a dynamic contract setting: Evidence from the home equity credit market

Sumit Agarwal;Brent W. Ambrose;Souphala Chomsisengphet;Chunlin Liu

101
Citations
Does Borrower and Broker Race Affect the Cost of Mortgage Credit

Brent W Ambrose;James N Conklin;Luis A Lopez

83
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Sumit Agarwal National University of Singapore

Souphala Chomsisengphet Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

N. Edward Coulson University of California, Irvine

Patric H. Hendershott The Ohio State University

William N. Goetzmann Yale University

Susan M. Wachter University of Pennsylvania

Yongheng Deng University of Wisconsin–Madison

Joe Peek Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Abdullah Yavas University of Wisconsin–Madison

Mark D. Griffiths Nottingham Trent University

External Links

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