This paper shows that ignoring differences in developers' competitive strength and their bidding behavior in land auctions leads to distorted valuation of urban lands. Using the government's land sale data in Singapore for the sample periods 1990-2011, we found that after controlling for...

In this paper, we investigate how real estate portfolio composition impacts earnings management (EM) of New Zealand listed property portfolios (NZ-LPPs). We employ a panel dataset containing accounting and property data for NZ-LPPs. The findings include: (1) the office property ratio of the real...

This paper aims to investigate the peer effects in financial investment of board-interlocked firms from the information sharing perspective. Based on board interlock and financial information of A-share listed nonfinancial firms in China, we construct board interlock networks where firms share...

This paper shows that ignoring differences in developers’ competitive strength and their bidding behavior in land auctions leads to distorted valuation of urban lands. Using the government’s land sale data in Singapore for the sample periods 1990–2011, we found that after controlling for...