CV

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Ron Cheung - Resume in Brief

Research & Teaching Fields:

• Public finance, urban economics, housing, applied microeconomics.

Education:

• Ph.D. (Economics), Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, conferred 2006.

• M.A. (Economics), Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, conferred 1999.

• B.Sc. (Honours Math/Economics), Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, conferred 1998.

Employment:

• Professor of Economics, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, July 2018 to date.

  • • Oberlin College Distinguished Teaching Award, 2017-2018.

• Chair of Department of Economics, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, July 2017 to June 2021; July 2022 to June 2024.

• Associate Professor of Economics, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, July 2013 to June 2018.

• Assistant Professor of Economics, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, July 2010 to June 2013.

• Assistant Professor of Economics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, August 2005 to June 2010. Also affiliated as faculty research associate in the DeVoe L. Moore Center.

Publications:

1. All (Economic) Politics is Local: Voting Responses to Localized Price Shocks during the Great Recession (with Rachel Meltzer), Journal of Regional Science, forthcoming.

2. Homeowners Associations and City Cohesion (with Tim Salmon and Kuangli Xie), Regional Science and Urban Economics (2022), vol. 93.

3. Induced Earthquakes and House Prices: Evidence from Oklahoma (with Daniel Wetherell and Stephan Whitaker), Regional Science and Urban Economics (2018), vol. 69, p. 153-166.

4. An Empirical Analysis of Socio-Demographic Factors and the Mispricing of Homeowners Insurance in Florida (with Cassandra Cole, David Macpherson, Kathleen McCullough and Charles Nyce), Risk Management and Insurance Review (2015), vol. 18, no. 1, p. 1-28.

5. Why and Where Do Homeowners Associations Form? (with Rachel Meltzer), Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research (2014), vol. 16, no. 3, p. 69-92 .

6. How Are Homeowners Associations Capitalized into Housing and Land Values? (with Rachel Meltzer), Regional Science and Urban Economics (2014), vol. 36, p. 93-102.

7. Do Homeowners Associations Mitigate or Aggravate Negative Spillovers from Neighboring Homeowner Distress? (with Chris Cunningham and Rachel Meltzer), Journal of Housing Economics (2014), vol. 24, p. 75-88.

8. Homeowners Associations and the Demand for Local Land Use Regulation (with Rachel Meltzer), Journal of Regional Science (2013), vol. 53, no. 3.

9. Who Supports Portable Assessment Caps: The Role of Lock-in, Tax Share and Mobility (with Chris Cunningham), Regional Science and Urban Economics (2011), vol. 41, no. 3.

10. Homeowners' Associations and Their Impact on the Local Public Budget, chapter in The Changing Landscape of Local Public Revenues (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2010).

11. The Incidence of the Land Use Regulatory Tax (with Keith Ihlanfeldt & Tom Mayock), Real Estate Economics (2009), vol. 37, no. 4.

12. The Regulatory Tax and House Price Appreciation in Florida (with Keith Ihlanfeldt & Tom Mayock), Journal of Housing Economics (2009), vol. 18.

13. The Interaction Between Public and Private Governments: An Empirical Analysis, Journal of Urban Economics (2008) vol. 63, no. 3.

14. The Effect of Property Tax Limitations on Residential Private Government, National Tax Journal (2008) vol. 61, no. 1.

15. Taxation Impacts on Inequality in Canada: Methodologies and Findings (with Jonathan Rhys Kesselman), chapter in Dimensions of Inequality in Canada (UBC Press, 2006).

16. Public and Private Institutions, Political Action, and the Practice of Local Government (with Charles Barrilleaux and Thomas M. Carsey), Review of Policy Research (2006), vol. 23, no. 6, p. 1119-1121

17. Tax Incidence, Progressivity, and Inequality in Canada (with Jonathan Rhys Kesselman), Canadian Tax Journal (2004) vol. 52, no. 3.

Selected Work in Progress:

1. Municipal Finances and the Household Leverage Cycle (with Chris Cunningham and Stephan Whitaker)

2. Do Private HOA Members Engage in Public Life? Evidence from Voting Behavior (with Rachel Meltzer)

3. How Do Homeowners Associations Affect Housing Affordability? (with Rachel Meltzer)

4. Voting with Your Feet or Just Voting: The Timing and Determinants of Annexation (with Chris Cunningham)

Courses Taught:

• Public economics (both undergraduate and graduate); Intermediate microeconomics; Urban economics; Principles of economics; Seminars on housing markets and real estate; Seminars on privatization.