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Temperature effects on productivity and factor reallocation : evidence from a half million Chinese manufacturing plants

Zhang, Peng; Deschênes, Olivier; Meng, Kyle C.; Zhang, … - 2017

the effects of temperature on firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), factor inputs, and output. We detect an inverted …

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Measurement of environmentally sensitive productivity growth in Korean industries

Chung, Yeimin; Heshmati, Almas - 2013

This study measures productivity growth using the Metafrontier Malmquist-Luenberger productivity growth index (MML …-Luenberger (ML) productivity growth index. MML has two advantages compared with the ML index. The former is able to consider … index is employed to measure productivity growth and decompose its components in 14 Korean industrial sectors during the …

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Superstition in the housing market

Fortin, Nicole Marie; Hill, Andrew J.; Huang, Jeff - 2013

We provide the first solid evidence that Chinese superstitious beliefs can have significant effects on house prices in a North American market with a large immigrant population. Using real estate data on close to 117,000 house sales, we find that houses with address number ending in four are...

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Productivity and wage effects of firm-level collective agreements : evidence from Belgian linked panel data

Garnero, Andrea; Rycx, François; Terraz, Isabelle - 2018

Belgian linked employer-employee panel data, our findings show that firm agreements increase both wage costs and productivity … that firm agreements exert a stronger impact on wages than on productivity, so that profitability is hampered. However … wages beyond productivity when the rents to be shared between workers and firms are relatively big. Overall, this suggests …

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How do households discount over centuries? : evidence from Singapore's private housing market

Fesselmeyer, Eric; Liu, Haoming; Salvo, Alberto - 2016

We examine Singapore's fairly homogeneous private-housing market and show that new apartments on historical multi-century leases trade at a non-zero discount relative to property owned in perpetuity. Descriptive regressions indicate that new apartments with 825 to 986 years of tenure remaining...

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Superstition, conspicuous spending, and housing markets : evidence from Singapore

Agarwal, Sumit; He, Jia; Liu, Haoming; Png, Ivan; Sing, … - 2016

For most people, buying a home is their single largest financial commitment. Previous research shows that Chinese buyers pay less for homes with unlucky addresses and more for homes with lucky addresses. Using Singapore data on housing transactions combined with a plethora of individual buyer...

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House price expectations

Gohl, Niklas; Haan, Peter; Michelsen, Claus; Weinhardt, … - 2022

This study examines short-, medium-, and long-run price expectations in housing markets. We derive and test six hypothesis about the incidence, formation, and relevance of price expectations. To do so, we use data from a tailored household survey, past sale and rental offerings, satellites, and...

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Real estate agent earnings and local housing prices

Hirsch, Barry T.; Macpherson, David A.; Qu, Zichong - 2022

Real estate agents typically receive commissions based on a fixed percentage of home price purchases. Because housing prices vary across markets, one might expect that realtors have higher earnings in high-priced markets. Prior work by Hsieh and Moretti (2003) suggests that entry among realtors...

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Explaining regional disparities in housing prices across German districts

Brausewetter, Lars; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Trunzer, Johannes - 2022

Over the last decade, German housing prices have increased unprecedentedly. Drawing on quality-adjusted housing price data at the district level, we document large and increasing regional disparities: growth rates were higher in 1) the largest seven cities, 2) districts located in the south, and...

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Rising sea levels and sinking property values : the effects of Hurricane Sandy on New York's housing market

Ortega, Francesc; Taṣpınar, Süleyman - 2016

Are coastal cities adjusting to rising sea levels? This paper argues that large-scale events have the potential to ignite the process. We examine the effects of hurricane Sandy on the New York City housing market. We assemble a large plot-level dataset with rich geographic data on housing sales...

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