We examine the extent to which markets enable the provision of housing finance across a wide range of countries. Housing is a major purchase requiring long-term financing, and the factors that are associated with well functioning housing finance systems are those that enable the provision of...

An expanding literature asserts that non-U.S. firms achieve a unique valuation premium for listing on U.S. equity markets. In this paper we test the uniqueness of the U.S. foreign listing premium by examining the premium achieved by foreign listings across a global set of stock exchanges. We...