This paper studies the effects of increasing formality via tax reduction and simplification schemes on micro-firm performance. We develop a simple theoretical model that yields two intuitive results. First, low- and high- ability entrepreneurs are unlikely to be affected by a tax reduction...

Previous studies of rental and price premiums in the market for eco-certified real estate have largely ignored buyer characteristics. This paper investigates whether there are significant concentrations of eco-investors in commercial real estate markets and uses hedonic regression analysis to...

This paper contributes to a fast growing literature which introduces game theory in the analysis of real option investments in a competitive setting. Specifically, in this paper we focus on the issue of market incompleteness and the practical difficulty of finding a twin security in order to...

In this paper we study optimal portfolio allocation of real estate assets using IPD transaction-based data. Currently, appraisal-based indices represent a standard tool for the analysis of property returns in portfolio decisions. However, appraisal-based indices present a number of shortcomings:...