Chris Cunningham
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Biography
Christopher C. Cunningham is a research economist and policy adviser in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Dr. Cunningham's work has examined issues of land development and housing supply, the intersection of mortgage and labor markets, the determinants and consequences of foreclosures, agglomeration and workers' skills, and the political economy of the property tax. He has published papers in leading journals including the Review of Economics and Statistics, Management Science, the Journal of Urban Economics, the National Tax Journal, and Regional Science and Urban Economics. Dr. Cunningham has been a visiting scholar at Université Catholique de Louvain, Emory University, and Georgia State University. He received his PhD in economics in 2005 from Syracuse University and his undergraduate degree in economics from George Washington University.
Working Papers
Atlanta Fed Working Papers
2022
2022-11a
The Good, the Bad and the Ordinary: Estimating Agent Value-Added Using Real Estate Transactions
Chris Cunningham, Kristopher Gerardi, and Lily Shen
September 2022 (Revised April 2023)
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2019
2019-20
Foreclosure Externalities and Vacant Property Registration Ordinances
Arnab Biswas, Chris Cunningham, Kristopher Gerardi, and Daniel Sexton
November 2019
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2017
2017-4a
Fracking and Mortgage Default
Chris Cunningham, Kristopher Gerardi, and Lily Shen
March 2017 (revised October 2020)
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2013
2013-19
Estimating the Holdout Problem in Land Assembly
Chris Cunningham
December 2013
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2013-18
Do Homeowners Associations Mitigate or Aggravate Negative Spillovers from Neighboring Homeowner Distress?
Ron Cheung, Chris Cunningham, and Rachel Meltzer
December 2013
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2012
2012-20
Housing Wealth and Wage Bargaining
Chris Cunningham and Robert R. Reed
December 2012
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2009
2009-19a
Who Supports Portable Assessment Caps?: The Role of Lock-Ins, Tax Share, and Mobility
Ron Cheung and Chris Cunningham
Revised October 2010
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Other Fed Work
Articles
2022
M. Melinda Pitts, Julie L. Hotchkiss, Chris Cunningham, and Roozbeh Hosseini. "Labor Supply, Wages, and Inequality Conference: Day 1 Overview" Policy Hub: Macroblog. November 30, 2022.
Chris Cunningham. "Do Freeway Lids Spur Development in Cities? Evidence from Dallas" Policy Hub: Macroblog. November 7, 2022.
Chris Cunningham and Anthony W. Orlando. "Will Office Conversions Meet Housing Demand?" Policy Hub: Macroblog. October 11, 2022.
2006
Chris Cunningham. "Smart Growth and Rebuilding the Mississippi Gulf Coast" 2006. EconSouth (2006 No2).
Blog Posts
Chris Cunningham and Kristopher Gerardi, "COVID-19 Mortgage Relief—The Role of Income Support," macroblog, May 27, 2020.
Chris Cunningham and Mike Eriksen. "Tax Reform's Effect on Low-Income Housing." Atlanta Fed's Real Estate Research. March 2, 2018.
Chris Cunningham. "Limiting Property Tax Assessment to Slow Gentrification." Atlanta Fed's Real Estate Research. March 27, 2014.
Interviews
Chris Cunningham. "How Fracking Affects Home Values.
" ECONversations. June 19, 2018.
Podcast Episodes
Chris Cunningham. "Examining the Southeast's Water Supply." Southeastern Economic Perspectives. January 3, 2008.