This paper examines the empirical impact of trade openness on the short-run underpricing of real estate IPOs in China, on a city level. To our knowledge, this represents the first paper which employs a macroeconomic argument to explain the real estate IPO performance. Our work is based on the...

Using a large international sample of firms, we examine the relation between carbon management ability (CMA) and firm-level climate risk exposure. We find that CMA is negatively associated with climate risk exposure. More importantly, we show that firms with high-CMA managers tend to develop...

We find evidence that asset market liquidity impacts a firm’s choice between secured and unsecured debt. We use real estate firm data and instrumental variables to estimate a proxy for an individual firm’s exposure to the underlying market liquidity of its assets. We find a positive...

Even though mortgage servicing plays an important role in housing finance, directly affecting millions of homeowners and mortgage-backed security investors, its economics is not well understood, hence making policy formulation and implementation challenging. To fill this gap, we examine the...

This research examines whether social capital at the county level in the U.S., as captured by the strength of civic norms and density of social networks, affects the liquidity holdings and failure risk of banks headquartered in the counties. Findings here indicate that banks headquartered in...

This paper examines the informativeness of servicing fees regarding the quality of mortgage collateral pools in non-agency securitizations and, ultimately, the value of the mortgage securities. We find that servicing fees capture some unobservable credit risk that explains mortgage default and...

We study the unintended effects of the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) on mortgage borrowers. Originally designed to help financially distressed borrowers refinance after the 2008-09 global financial crisis, HARP inadvertently amplified the market power of incumbent lenders by...