Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the 2007 global financial crisis (GFC) changed financial disclosure behavior using a sample of US equity real estate investment trusts (REITs) from 2000 to 2015.Design/methodology/approach – The authors use panel data spanning from...

This paper is the first study to explore whether the stapled structure influences firms’ activities in earnings management (EM). Trusts and firms under stapled securities are exposed to various managerial opportunities and activities that can provide the flexibility of using EM approaches....

Climate change and the recent rapid expansion of residential areas into rural areas after the outbreak of COVID-19 expose more communities to the wildfire risk. This research adopts a unique database containing house transaction data from near the boundary of the Bushfire Prone Area (BPA), which...

Many countries have adopted lockdown measures to combat the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The lockdowns in the state of Victoria (VIC), Australia, however, are unique in that the government divides VIC into two distinct areas using Ring of Steel boundary, and consistently places more...

Climate change and the recent rapid expansion of residential areas into rural areas after the outbreak of COVID-19 expose more communities to the wildfire risk. This research adopts a unique database containing house transaction data from near the boundary of the Bushfire Prone Area (BPA), which...

Premium public educational resources are scarce, and their accessibility is usually associated with the ownership and location of residential property in many countries such as China. With the aims of improving equality in allocating educational resources and suppressing the rapid growth of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to estimate the determinants of the retail space rent in Shanghai. Design/methodology/approach – Hedonic model and spatial regression models are used in the paper. The problem of spatial autocorrelation is tested by Moran's I statistics, and the root...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the determinants of the capital structure of listed property firms in China. Design/methodology/approach – The study is based on quantitative methods such as dynamic panel data models and a panel data set containing financial and...

Die vorliegende Untersuchung soll zeigen, ob eine Selbstbeteiligung ein wirksames Instrument zur Begrenzung der Arzneimittelnachfrage ist. Voraussetzung dafür ist die Kenntnis der nachfragebestimmenden Faktoren für Arzneimittel und deren Wirkung auf die Preis-, Mengen- und Strukturkomponenten....