Assistant Professor of Economics, Oberlin College

Ron Cheung

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Ron Cheung, Assistant Professor of Economics, Oberlin College

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Email: rcheung@oberlin.edu

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Please click here to download a PDF version of my CV. (CV is current as of May 2012.)

Resume in Brief:

Research & Teaching Fields:

· Public finance, urban economics, real estate, applied microeconomics.

Education:

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

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

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

Employment:

· Assistant Professor of Economics, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, July 2010 to date.

· 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.

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

· ““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.

· “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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

Selected Work in Progress:

· “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), submitted.

· “Homeowners Associations and the Demand for Local Land Use Regulation (with Rachel Meltzer), revison resubmitted.

· “How Are Homeowners Associations Capitalized into Housing and Land Values?” (with Rachel Meltzer).

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

· “The Politics of Residential Private Government” (with Robert Helsley).

Courses Taught:

· Public economics (both undergraduate and graduate); Applied microeconomics; Principles of economics.

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