This paper shows that firms from financial centres are more likely to go public than their provincial counterparts. The financial centre bias is analysed for 32 countries, including the European Union, the USA and Japan. It is particularly strong in countries with underdeveloped stock markets...

This research identifies the suburban typology of San Diego through a study of the social and fiscal disparities within the region. Municipal tax base and other demographic data, such as poverty rates measured at the school-level, are used to show wide variations in the capacities of suburban...

This research identifies the suburban typology of Erie through a study of the social and fiscal disparities within the region. Municipal tax base and other demographic data, such as poverty rates measured at the school-level, are used to show wide variations in the capacities of suburban...

This research identifies the suburban typology of Wisconsin through a study of the social and fiscal disparities within the state. Municipal tax base and other demographic data, such as poverty rates measured at the school-level, are used to show wide variations in the capacities of suburban...

Real estate development appraisal is a quantification of future expectations. The appraisal model relies upon the valuer/developer having an understanding of the future in terms of the future marketability of the completed development and the future cost of development. In some cases the...

This paper investigates the the household consumption pattern in rural and urban Orissa during 1999-00 for a basket of twelve commodities and estimates the corresponding Engel functions with Working-Leser methodology. Both in rural and urban areas, cereals, edible oil, vegetables, spices and...

Infrastructure can be unreliable and administration subject to corruption in Asia's rapidly developing economies. Foreign investment is thus drawn to privileged investment enclaves, as well as in and around centers of international infrastructure. This context provides opportunity for...

Data on major voting blocks in the German officially listed companies for the end of 1997 and May 2001 is used in order to explore the spatial dimensions of the system of corporate control. Listed companies are very unevenly distributed, and their institutional and geographical concentration has...

This study examines the portfolio implications of apartment investing. In particular, it concentrates on the sector's relative stability, liquidity and current market outlook. Support is found for many of the advantages attributed to apartments relative to other property types. The apartment...

In this paper, we seek to quantify the importance of state-level housing price spillovers and interest rate shocks to house price developments in the United States. The econometric approach involves an application of the recently developed global VAR (GVAR) as presented in Dees, DiMauro,...