Yongheng Deng

Yongheng Deng is a Professor and the John P. Morgridge Distinguished Chair in Business, Chair of the Department of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics, and Director of the Global Real Estate Masters Program (GREM), at the Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin – Madison. Professor Deng is the recipient of the 2021 Erwin A. Gaumnitz Distinguished Faculty Research Award in the Wisconsin School of Business. Professor Deng’s research pertains to a wide variety of issues in real estate finance, housing and urban economics worldwide, including asset pricing and risk analysis focusing on the mortgage, mortgage-backed security and real estate capital markets; econometric analysis of competing risks of mortgage prepayment and default with unobserved heterogeneity; climate change risks and revaluation of the real estate markets; sustainable development; political economy and policy analysis of the housing markets in China and Asia. Professor Deng holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley.