This paper investigates the relationship between political connections and corporate borrowing behavior using the listed real estate development firms in China from 2001 to 2014. Evidence from China is of particular importance due to China being the world's largest emerging and transition...

Based on the household survey of “household energy consumption and living conditions in Beijing”, in this paper, we estimate the determinants of household carbon emissions and its relation to a community's building, neighborhood and location attributes. We find that a community with...

Based on the matched date of initial vacant land parcels and final completed housing projects in Beijing of China from 2003 to 2015, we investigate the correlations of land acquisition outcomes, developer risk attitude and land development timing. We find that real estate developers' land...

It is important to investigate the correlation between housing price and household consumption to gain an understanding of the behavior of the economy and effectively handle the consequences of economic development. In the last two decades, the accumulation of housing wealth by Chinese...

This paper studies whether (and how) corporate decisions are affected by internal factors (such as the financial conditions of own company) and external factors (such as the actions of local competitors) in an imperfectly competitive environment. We study the listed real estate developers in...

Newspaper text has become one of the critical data sources for measuring economic policy uncertainty. In some cases, newspaper discussions of policy uncertainty are expressed in subtle and implied ways. Hence, it is necessary to mimic market practitioners to process and identify perceived,...

Newspaper text has become one of the critical data sources for measuring economic policy uncertainty. In some cases, newspaper discussions of policy uncertainty are expressed in subtle and implied ways. Hence, it is necessary to mimic market practitioners to process and identify perceived,...