Research Interests

• Affordable Housing Finance 
• Housing and Public Policy
• Regional Economic Development
• Statistical and spatial modeling

Selected Publications 

• The Impact of Federal Preemption of State Anti-predatory Lending Laws on the Foreclosure Crisis (with Quercia, R.G., Reid, C. and White, A.), Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2012, 31(2), 367-38
• State Anti-Predatory Lending Laws and Neighborhood Foreclosure Rates (with Quercia, R.G., Reid, C. and White, A.), Journal of Urban Affairs, 2011, 33 (5), 451-467
• Reducing Risk and Foreclosures in the Mortgage Market: A Loan Level Analysis of the Impact of Anti-Predatory Lending Laws during the Subprime Crisis (with Quercia, R.G., Reid, C. and White, A.), Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy, 2011, 21 (2), 247-290
• Risky Borrowers or Risky Mortgages: Disaggregating Effects Using Propensity Score Models (with Quercia, R.G., Li, W., and Ratcliffe, J.), Journal of Real Estate Research, 2011, 33(2), 245-276
• Neighborhood Subprime Lending and the Performance of Community Reinvestment Mortgages (with Quercia, R.G. and Ratcliffe, J.), Journal of Real Estate Research, 2010, 32(3): 341-376
• Modeling the Spatial Diffusion of Mobile Telecommunications in China (with Haynes, K.E. and Li, H.), The Professional Geographer, 2010, 62(2): 248-263
• Loan Modification and Redefault Risk: An Examination of Short-term Impact (with Quercia, R.G.), Cityscape, 2009, 11(3): 103-125
• Telecommunications Infrastructure and Regional Income Convergence in China: Panel Data Approaches (with Haynes, K.E. and Liu, Y.), Annals of Regional Science, 2008,42(4), 843-861
• The Neighborhood Patterns of Higher-Priced Lending: The Case of Atlanta (with Ratcliffe, J., Stegman, M.A., and Quercia, R.G.), Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law, 2008,17(3), 193-217
• Post-purchase Counseling and Default Resolutions among Low- and Moderate-Income Borrowers (Quercia, R.G., and Ratcliffe, J.). Journal of Real Estate Research, 2008,30(3), 315-344 
• The Knowledge network and Learning in A Competitive Environment: A Learning Regional Model, Studies in Regional Science (with Shibusawa, H. and Haynes, K.E.), 2008, 38(1), 33-49
• Preventive Servicing Is Good for Business and Affordable Homeownership Policy (with Stegman, M. A., Quercia, R.G., Ratcliffe, J., and Davis, W.), House Policy Debate, 2007,18 (2), 243-278

Courses

• Housing Policy and Programs
• Planning Studies and Methods
• State and Local Public Finance
• Introduction to Urban Studies

Professor Ding's CV