China's deepening engagement in the global trading system and the threat of its export capacity have affected the negotiation, formation, and rules of international trade agreements. Among other changes, China's 2001 accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) introduced new allowances for...

This article provides an empirical framework to study entry and cost inefficiency in the real estate brokerage industry. We develop a structural entry model that exploits individual level data on entry and earnings to estimate potential real estate agents' revenues and reservation wages, thereby...

This paper presents a life-cycle model of housing demand with uncertain house prices and lumpy transaction costs. The paper extends the (S,s) methodology to a non-stationary discrete time framework with multivariate stochastic price processes. This allows the characterization of a self-hedging...

This paper presents a life-cycle model of housing demand with uncertain house prices and lumpy transaction costs. The paper extends the (S,s) methodology to a non-stationary discrete time framework with multivariate stochastic price processes. This allows the characterization of a self-hedging...

On the basis of introducing the theory of Target Zones and Exchange Rate, this paper tests for the significant to reform Chinese currency Renmingbi (RMB) exchange regime, and the possibility to build a target zone. It is pointed out that, under the tendency of economic globalization and entered...

This article provides an empirical framework for studying entry and cost inefficiency in the real estate brokerage industry. We present a structural entry model that exploits individual level data on entry and earnings to estimate potential real estate agents' revenues and reservation wages,...

We examine various determinants of property and violent crimes by using police force area level (PFA) data on England and Wales over the period of 1992--2008. Our list of potential determinants includes two law enforcement variables namely crime-specific detection rate and prison population, and...

type="main" <p>This article analyzes the time series and cross-sectional patterns of bidding wars for houses. Bidding wars were once rare, a fairly constant 3–4% of transactions. This led to treating list price as a ceiling in empirical and theoretical research on housing. The bidding war share...</p>

Housing markets clear partly through the time buyers and sellers spend on the market, and the readiness with which they transact with each other. Applying a random matching model to unique multi-year, multi-market survey data on both buyers and sellers, we examine how demand affects housing...