Working papers – NUS Institute of Real Estate and Urban Studies

Working papers of IREUS researchers and affiliated researchers*

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2024

Agarwal, S., Qian, W., & Zou, X. (2024). Liquidity Constraint Threat and Household Indebtedness. Available at SSRN 4440857.

Badarinza, C., Ramadorai, T., Siljander, J., & Tripathy, J. (2024). Behavioral lock-in: Aggregate implications of reference dependence in the housing market. SSRN Electronic Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.4693047

Fan, M., Agarwal, S., Eraral, E., Qin, Y., & Zheng, H. (2024). From Efficiency to Excess: Understanding Energy Usage in Green-Certified Homes.

Lee, K. O., Lee, H., & Lee, J. (2024). Geographic restrictions for COVID-19 stimulus spending and public health outcomes: Using big data in Seoul, South Korea. doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-3766699/v1

Neo, D. J., & Sing, T. F. (2024). Doing good and doing well: The relationships between ESG and stock returns of REITs. SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4709171

Qian, W., Tu, H., Wu, J., & Xu, W. (2024). Unintended Consequences of Demand-side Housing Policies: Evidence from Household Reallocation of Capital. Available at SSRN 3558307.

2023

Agarwal, S., Araral, E., Fan, M., Qin, Y., & Zheng, H. (2023). The effects of policy announcement, prices, and subsidies on water consumption. SSRN Electronic Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.4318217

Agarwal, S., Ding, Y., Kuang, W., & Zhu, X. (2023). Are environmental punishments good news or bad news? Evidence from China. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 120, 102847.

Agarwal, S., Fan, Y., Qian, W. & Sing, T. F. (2023) Like Father Like Son? Social Engineering and Intergenerational Mobility in Housing Consumption. Available at SSRN 3993882

Agarwal, S., Qian, W., Ren, Y., Tsai, H.-T., & Yeung, B. Y. (2023). The real impact of FinTech: Evidence from Mobile Payment Technology. SSRN Electronic Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.3556340

Agarwal, S., Qian, W., Ruan, T., & Yeung, B. Y. (2023). Supporting Seniors: How Low-Income Elderly Individuals Respond to a Retirement Support Program. Available at SSRN 3611637.

Badarinza, C., Balasubramaniam, V., & Ramadorai, T. (2023). In Search of the Matching Function in the Housing Market. Available at SSRN.

Diao, M., McMillen, D. P., & Sing, T. F. (2023). A quantile spatial-autocorrelated difference-in differences (QSDID) regression analysis of housing price changes distributions near urban rail transit stations. SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4549920

Fan, Y., Gao, Q., Sitoh, Y. E., & Wan, W. X. (2023). Gone with the Flood: Natural Disaster, Population Replacement, and Information Nudge. Available at SSRN 4343838.

Fan, Y., Wang, C., & Xu, K. (2023) Announcement of Northern Metropolis Plan Raises Housing Prices, Consumption, and School Enrolment, though Inconclusive on Inequality. Available at SSRN 4620663.

Gu, Q., He, J., Qian, W., & Ren, Y. (2023). The effect of wealth shocks on shirking: evidence from the housing market. Available at SSRN 3189933.

Lee, K. O., & Yeung, H. (2023). Multiple Dimensions of Green Spaces and Their Interaction with Mental Wellbeing: A Comparative Analysis between Singapore and Hong Kong (No. eres2023_87). European Real Estate Society (ERES).

Tu, Y., Yaopei, W., Fan, Y., Yang, Y., & Lee, J. Z. X. (2023). New Aging-in-Place Model with Spatial Analytical Framework to Evaluate Aging-in-Place Policy: Evidence from a City State of Singapore. Available at SSRN 4487071.

2022

Agarwal, S., Fan, Y., Qian, W. & Sing, T. F. (2022). The Role of Consumption in Marriage Commitment: Evidence from Singapore’s Build-to-Order Program. Available at SSRN 3975080

Agarwal, S., Fang, X., Goette, L., Schoeb, S., Sing, T. F., Staake, T., ... & Wang, D. (2022). Goal-Setting and Behavioral Change: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Water Conservation.

Agarwal, S., Ghosh, P., Li, J., & Ruan, T. (2022). Digital payments and consumption: evidence from the 2016 demonetization in India. Available at SSRN 3641508.

Agarwal, S., Ghosh, P., & Zhang, J. (2022). Tax policy transmission and household expenditures. SSRN Electronic Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.4093637

Agarwal, S., Qin Y., Sing T. F., & Zhan C. (2022). “Impacts of Sea Level Rise Risks on Real Estate Prices: Evidence from Singaporean Government’s Announcement” Nature Climate Change

Agarwal, S., Seiler, M. J., & Siebert, R. (2022). Do as essay, not as I do? how inflated list prices of unsold essayer homes affect the price discovery process. SSRN Electronic Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.4260262

Agarwal, S., Sing, T. F., & Sultana, M. (2022). Public Media Campaign and Energy Conservation: A natural experiment in Singapore. SSRN Electronic Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.4020246

An, L., Pan, Y., & Qin, Y. (2022). Extrapolative Beliefs and Financial Decisions: Causal Evidence from Renewable Energy Financing.

2021

2020

Agarwal, S., Chia, L. E., & Sing, T. F. (2020). Straw purchase or safe haven? The hidden perils of illicit wealth in property markets. SSRN Electronic Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.3688752

Agarwal, S., Deng, Y., He, J., & Wang, Y. (2020). Understanding the evolution in mortgage pricing strategy: Do neighborhood factors matter? SSRN Electronic Journal.

Agarwal, S., Fan, Y., McMillen, D. P., & Sing, T. F. (2020). Tracking the pulse of a city – 3D real estate price heat maps. SSRN Electronic Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.3746134

Agarwal, S., Ghosh, P., Ruan, T., & Zhang, Y. (2020). Privacy versus convenience: Customer response to data breaches of their information. Available at SSRN 3729730.

Agarwal, S., Hu, M., & Lee, A. D. (2020). Who gains from housing market stimulus? Evidence from homeowner grants with threshold prices. SSRN Electronic Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.3665154

Agarwal, S., & Varshneya, S. (2020). Financial crisis and the U.S. Mortgage Markets – A Review. SSRN Electronic Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.4130185

Fan, Y., Teo, H. P., Tu, Y., & Wan, W. X. (2020). Integration and Migrants’ Economic Behaviours: Evidence from the Singapore Housing Market. Available at SSRN 3772823.

*The full list of working papers from the last 5 years can be accessed here.