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3584
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3743
National Ranking
1977

Overview

Roberto G. Quercia is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the broad field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with particular focus on several interrelated subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Finance, and Accounting.

The main topics that Roberto G. Quercia addresses in their work center on Housing Market and Economics, Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism, Spatial and Panel Data Analysis, and Financial Literacy, Pension, and Retirement Analysis. These topics are reflected consistently across their recent publications.

Quercia's recent papers illustrate these research interests and include the following:

  • Where Has All the Housing Gone? (2024), published in Housing Policy Debate
  • Does Temporary Mortgage Assistance for Unemployed Homeowners Reduce Longer Term Mortgage Default? An Analysis of the Hardest Hit Fund Program (2020), published in SSRN Electronic Journal

Additionally, works associated with collaborators or closely linked research include:

  • Does Temporary Mortgage Assistance for Unemployed Homeowners Reduce Longer-Term Mortgage Default? An Analysis of the Hardest Hit Fund Program (2022), published in Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
  • The impact of low- and moderate-wealth homeownership on parental attitudes and behavior: Evidence from the community advantage panel (2020), published by UNC Libraries
  • Revisiting the subprime crisis: The dual mortgage market and mortgage defaults by race and ethnicity (2025), also published by UNC Libraries

Frequent publication venues where Roberto G. Quercia's work appears include UNC Libraries, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Housing Policy Debate, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Roberto G. Quercia collaborates regularly with a number of coauthors, among whom the most frequent are Stephanie Moulton, Yung Chun, Stephanie Casey Pierce, Sarah Riley, and Holly Holtzen. Each of these collaborators has coauthored at least two papers.

Best Publications

  • Residential Mortgage Default: A Review of the Literature*

    Roberto G. Quercia;Michael A. Stegman

  • Identifying neighborhood thresholds: An empirical exploration

    George C. Galster;Roberto G. Quercia;Alvaro Cortes

  • The Value Impact of New Residential Construction and Neighborhood Disinvestment on Residential Sales Price

    Robert Simons;Roberto Quercia;Ivan Levin

  • The impact of predatory loan terms on subprime foreclosures: The special case of prepayment penalties and balloon payments

    Roberto G. Quercia;Michael A. Stegman;Walter R. Davis

  • The impacts of affordable lending efforts on homeownership rates

    Roberto G. Quercia;George W. McCarthy;Susan M. Wachter

  • Threshold Effects and Neighborhood Change

    Roberto G. Quercia;George C. Galster

  • Risky Borrowers or Risky Mortgages Disaggregating Effects Using Propensity Score Models

    Lei Ding;Roberto G. Quercia;Wei Li;Janneke Ratcliffe

  • Urban containment and central-city revitalization

    Arthur C. Nelson;Raymond J. Burby;Edward Feser;Casey J. Dawkins

  • The Fortunes of Poor Neighborhoods

    George C. Galster;Roberto G. Quercia;Alvaro Cortes;Ron Malega

  • Friends and neighbors: Homeownership and social capital among low- to moderate-income families

    Kim Manturuk;Mark Lindblad;Roberto Quercia

  • Sense of community and informal social control among lower income households: the role of homeownership and collective efficacy in reducing subjective neighborhood crime and disorder

    Mark R. Lindblad;Kim R. Manturuk;Roberto G. Quercia

  • The challenges facing public housing authorities in a brave new world

    Roberto G. Quercia;George C. Galster

  • Threshold effects and the expected benefits of attracting middle‐income households to the central city

    Roberto G. Quercia;George C. Galster

  • Homeownership counseling performance: How can it be measured?

    Roberto G. Quercia;Susan M. Wachter

  • HOMEOWNERSHIP AND NEIGHBORHOOD SATISFACTION AMONG LOW‐ AND MODERATE‐INCOME HOUSEHOLDS

    Michal Grinstein‐Weiss;Yeong Yeo;Katrin Anacker;Shannon Van Zandt

  • Assessing the Impact of North Carolina's Predatory Lending Law

    Roberto G. Quercia;Michael A. Stegman;Walter R. Davis

  • Homeownership and Civic Engagement in Low-Income Urban Neighborhoods: A Longitudinal Analysis

    Kim Manturuk;Mark Lindblad;Roberto Quercia

  • Revisiting the subprime crisis: The dual mortgage market and mortgage defaults by race and ethnicity

    Carolina K. Reid;Debbie Bocian;Wei Li;Roberto G. Quercia

  • Spatio-Temporal Measurement of House Price Appreciation in Underserved Areas

    Roberto Quercia;George McCarthy;Rhonda Ryznar;Ayşe Can Talen

  • Does homeownership counseling affect the prepayment and default behavior of affordable mortgage borrowers

    Roberto Quercia;Jonathan Spader

Frequent Co-Authors

George Galster
George Galster Wayne State University
Asad J. Khattak
Asad J. Khattak University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Susan M. Wachter
Susan M. Wachter University of Pennsylvania
Arthur C. Nelson
Arthur C. Nelson University of Arizona
Raymond J. Burby
Raymond J. Burby University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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