This paper analyzes the housing markets and housing policies in Hong Kong, China and the People's Republic of China (PRC). Both markets face housing affordability problems due to limited land supply, for which the solutions vary considerably. Hong Kong, China has adopted a railway and property...

This paper studies the extent to which equilibrium land auction prices are pushed up sequentially due to strategic bidding behaviors in government land auction sales. Using a unique data set that covers the universe of tendering prices submitted by all developers for all residential land auction...

We examine takeover auctions when an informed bidder has better informationabout the target value than a rival and target shareholders. The informed bidder'sinformation is either hard or soft, and only hard information can be credibly disclosed.We show that withholding information creates a...

This paper examines the extent to which agglomeration of the hospital service industry enhances the productivity of producing health care. Specifically, we use a large set of private insurance claims from the FAIR Health database to show that an increasing spatial concentration of hospital...

Holly, Pesaran, and Yamagata (2010) use a panel of 49 states over the period of 1975 to 2003 to show that state-level real housing prices are driven by economic fundamentals, such as real per capita disposable income, as well as by common shocks, such as changes in interest rates, oil prices,...

This paper studies the extent to which equilibrium auction prices are affected by the order of sale and the extent of product differentiation in the context of government land auction sales. We propose a simple two-stage differentiated duopoly model where an incumbent winner of land from a...

We examine the corporate governance roles of information quality and the takeover market with asymmetric information regarding the value of the target firm. Increasing information quality improves the takeover efficiency, however, a highly efficient takeover market also discourages the manager...

A considerable fraction of college students and bachelor's degree recipients enroll in multiple postsecondary institutions. Despite this fact, there is scant research that examines the nature of the paths - both the number and types of institutions - that students take to obtain a bachelor's...

This paper uses administrative data on schooling and earnings from Texas to estimate the effect of college quality on the distribution of earnings. We proxy college quality using the college sector from which students graduate and focus on identifying how graduating from UT-Austin, Texas A\&M or...

Producing high-quality products incurs higher costs but provides greater consumption benefits, placing a challenge in measuring firm capability when output quality differs. Using a unique panel that contains a direct measure of scientific output quality, we introduce a quality-adjusted...