2026 Roberto G. Quercia: 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	30	3743	3417	1976	1747	94	3584

Roberto G. Quercia publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Roberto G. Quercia sits on this spectrum.

42 publications 521+

This scientist: 94 publications — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 521 publications or more.

Roberto G. Quercia D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Roberto G. Quercia sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 101+

This scientist: 30 D-Index — 3rd percentile

3% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

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

375
Citations
Identifying neighborhood thresholds: An empirical exploration

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

257
Citations
The Value Impact of New Residential Construction and Neighborhood Disinvestment on Residential Sales Price

Robert Simons;Roberto Quercia;Ivan Levin

184
Citations
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

172
Citations
The impacts of affordable lending efforts on homeownership rates

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

156
Citations
Threshold Effects and Neighborhood Change

Roberto G. Quercia;George C. Galster

150
Citations
Risky Borrowers or Risky Mortgages Disaggregating Effects Using Propensity Score Models

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

146
Citations
Urban containment and central-city revitalization

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

141
Citations
The Fortunes of Poor Neighborhoods

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

125
Citations
Friends and neighbors: Homeownership and social capital among low- to moderate-income families

Kim Manturuk;Mark Lindblad;Roberto Quercia

109
Citations
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

92
Citations
The challenges facing public housing authorities in a brave new world

Roberto G. Quercia;George C. Galster

92
Citations
Threshold effects and the expected benefits of attracting middle‐income households to the central city

Roberto G. Quercia;George C. Galster

92
Citations
Homeownership counseling performance: How can it be measured?

Roberto G. Quercia;Susan M. Wachter

90
Citations
HOMEOWNERSHIP AND NEIGHBORHOOD SATISFACTION AMONG LOW‐ AND MODERATE‐INCOME HOUSEHOLDS

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

89
Citations
Assessing the Impact of North Carolina's Predatory Lending Law

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

74
Citations
Homeownership and Civic Engagement in Low-Income Urban Neighborhoods: A Longitudinal Analysis

Kim Manturuk;Mark Lindblad;Roberto Quercia

72
Citations
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

69
Citations
Spatio-Temporal Measurement of House Price Appreciation in Underserved Areas

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

66
Citations
Does homeownership counseling affect the prepayment and default behavior of affordable mortgage borrowers

Roberto Quercia;Jonathan Spader

64
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

William M. Rohe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

George Galster Wayne State University

Asad J. Khattak University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Susan M. Wachter University of Pennsylvania

Arthur C. Nelson University of Arizona

Raymond J. Burby University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

External Links

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