Municipal governments in China established direct control of the supply of urban land in August 2004. This paper examines whether this government action mitigates the efficiency of the residential land market. Using a unique data set of detailed land and residential community transactions with...

Real Estate Exchange as to widen the scope of market, facilitate easy trading to avoid wide fluctuations in the market. The exchange would also enable price discovery through efficient allocation and distribution of resources. Real Estate exchange is the need of the hour. It would widen the...

Municipal governments in China established direct control of the supply of urban land in August 2004. This paper examines whether this government action mitigates the efficiency of the residential land market. Using a unique data set of detailed land and residential community transactions with...

The paper focuses on specific interference by government in the banking and corporate sectors during transition in the Czech Republic. The paper argues that the influence of the government in the Czech economy was higher than what the government officially conceded during the 1990s. The...

The current global financial crisis involves a wide range of situations in which economies, financial institutions, and assets have lost a substantial portion of their value. Banking panics, financial crisis associated with financial bubbles' bursts, sovereign debt defaults, and currency crisis...

Nuclear power has never been free from the stifling involvement of government. Heavy regulation has reduced the ability of entrepreneurs to develop and provide new means for the generation of energy using nuclear fuel. The strict parameters dictated by government officials are based upon...