Confronting Information Asymmetries: Evidence from Real Estate Markets

There are relatively few direct tests of the economic effects of asymmetric information because of the difficulty in identifying exogenous information measures. We propose a novel exogenous measure of information based on the quality of property tax assessments in different regions and apply this to...

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Published in:The Review of financial studies 2004-07, Vol.17 (2), p.405-437
Main Authors: Garmaise, Mark J., Moskowitz, Tobias J.
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Asymmetric information
Bank loans
Capital structure
Commercial real estate
Economic behaviour
Economic theory
Effects
Empirical research
Equity
Finance
Financial economics
Financial transactions
Information
Information asymmetry
Land trusts
Loan financing
Market
Mortgage loans
Property trusts
Real estate market
Real estate sales
Studies
Tax assessments
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subjects Asymmetric information
Bank loans
Capital structure
Commercial real estate
Economic behaviour
Economic theory
Effects
Empirical research
Equity
Finance
Financial economics
Financial transactions
Information
Information asymmetry
Land trusts
Loan financing
Market
Mortgage loans
Property trusts
Real estate market
Real estate sales
Studies
Tax assessments
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