Textual data has become increasingly common in business analytic data sets. While concept-based text mining offers a method of extracting meaningful information from text data, methods for monitoring of customer perceptions of business processes and products that are discussed in...

This study addresses prime and subprime residential mortgage selection in an inflationary environment. Using data from the Mortgage Bankers Association on the proportion of variable rate mortgages closed for the 1994 through 2007 period, we find that higher anticipated inflation held with...

This study provides evidence on the clean-up and development of properties in Cook County that have completed the two Illinois brownfield voluntary clean-up programmes (VCPs) since 1989. Real estate and environmental databases are merged to allow analysis of development trends for a sample of...

Brownfields are potentially contaminated sites that often present economic development opportunities that require financing. State environmental voluntary clean-up programmes (VCPs) offer closure letters as a way for developers to obtain assurance that their clean-up was completed properly and...

This paper uses hedonic modeling to test the effects of age, both actual and effective, on the value of historic properties within a nationally recognized historic district. Findings show that there is a critical point where the value of historic properties is affected by actual age and the...

This study reports on the results of several residential contingent valuation (CV) studies conducted throughout the US. Over the past several years CV has often been used to illustrate potential residential buyer bid prices for contaminated real property. The data set for this study contains...