Extending the controversial findings from the relevant literature, the results from the quarterly transaction-based Nationwide indices from 1974 to 2009 provide further empirical evidence on the rejection of the weak-form version of efficiency in the U.K. housing market. In addition to...

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...

This study provides evidence of informational efficiency in the housing market, where prices fully incorporate available information. We use Amazon's progressive disclosure of its new headquarters locations in Virginia and New York to distinguish changes in the public's knowledge. Using a...