This paper shows that ignoring differences in developers' competitive strength and their bidding behavior in land auctions leads to distorted valuation of urban lands. Using the government's land sale data in Singapore for the sample periods 1990-2011, we found that after controlling for...

Purpose – The existing literature on real estate investment trust (REIT) capital-structure decisions implicitly excludes either interest payment tax shield benefits or a trust's growth potential. The purpose of this paper is to test the long-term debt leverage decisions of listed property...

The moral hazard problem has been examined in the context of REITs (Edelstein, et al., 2010), securitized real estate (Fan, et al., 2006) and mortgage back securities (Keys, et al. 2009 and 2010; Kau, et al. 2012). Most past studies investigate moral hazard through managerial incentive, with little...

This paper aims to investigate the peer effects in financial investment of board-interlocked firms from the information sharing perspective. Based on board interlock and financial information of A-share listed nonfinancial firms in China, we construct board interlock networks where firms share...

There are limitations in the understandings of investors’ overreaction to the volatility in less transparent industrial sectors. Investors investing in a less transparent sector are likely to over-interpret available market information. This article compares investors’ reaction to market...

In this paper, we investigate how real estate portfolio composition impacts earnings management (EM) of New Zealand listed property portfolios (NZ-LPPs). We employ a panel dataset containing accounting and property data for NZ-LPPs. The findings include: (1) the office property ratio of the real...

This paper extends the literature on the consequences of over-education, in particular quit outcomes. It is the first study that explicitly tests the impact of job satisfaction and on-the-job training for workers in educational mismatched jobs and on quit behavior using a longitudinal data set....