We examine a recent trend in the market where investors purchase residential properties. We find that investors purchase at a discount of 9.5% compared to individuals purchasing in the same period and geographic area. More specifically, we find that small investors purchase at a discount of...

This paper presents a game theoretic model of property tax assessment that allows a tax appraiser to either choose a high or a low assessment. The owner either accepts or challenges this assessment. A 'fixed effects' regression model is used to evaluate the differences in the assessed values of...

This paper is working on one IPO panel data to estimate the predicting power of some co-variates on future status of IPO firms after going public. Specifically, our study aims to study how the possibility of the de-listing due to two major reasons, including merges, and bad performance...