Francis (2011) calls for more research on “the effect of audit quality on economic outcomes.” We respond by examining whether high-quality auditors reduce stock price crash risk, an important consideration for stock investors. We argue that high-quality auditors reduce crash risk because of...

This paper analyzes the impact of macroeconomic variables on house price volatility under different regimes of policy uncertainty, incorporating the Economic Policy Uncertainty Index and several Chinese macroeconomic data sets for the period from 1999 to 2014. We adopt a logistic smooth...

This study empirically tests volatility effects on land development options using data on the government's land sales by tender for the period from 1995 to 2018. We find that development land option premiums increase by 6% on average with one standard deviation increase in conditional...