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...

This article is the first to identify and estimate developers’ supply functions for real estate attributes. It introduces instruments that separate the demand side effects of real estate attributes and capture the nature of developers upon their initial business establishment into a two-stage...

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...

This article proposes a duopoly dynamic game theoretic model to investigate the market structure and aggregate surplus of real estate development when land is sold in a sealed-bid first price auction vis-à-vis an open English auction. It relaxes the assumption of symmetric bidders. The land...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine developers’ optimal development timing when developers are heterogeneous and have different marginal costs in a real estate development market. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a multiple-player game theoretic real option model and...