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This book covers the economics of construction safety, such as the asymmetric information of different construction practitioners in Hong Kong, studies feminism in Australias traditionally male-dominated construction industry, and researches an efficient Small-Scale Contractors construction health and safety performance management in Zambia. It also constructs the risk rating matrix and assesses occupational hazards identification and risk Assessment in Kaligandakis Construction Project. Besides, it throws light on construction safety informatics, such as scaffolds safety via rule-based safety checking and BIM. It compares safety awareness in academic databases in construction, manufacturing, traffic, and health and food industries. It studies construction, real estate hazard, and urban renewal hazard articles indexed on the Web of Science. It conducts a systematic literature review on safety culture. Lastly, it reviewed refurbishment and demolition work in Hong Kongs legal databases.

Intro -- Contents -- How Does Social Exchange Theory, Perceived Organizational Support and Leader-Member Exchange Affect Construction Practitioners' Perception on Construction Safety? An Asymmetric Information Approach -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Social Exchange Theory (SET) -- 3 Cost-And-Benefit Relationship of Safety Climate -- 4 Relationships Between Safety Climate and Job Satisfaction, and Morality -- 5 Relationships Between Safety Climate and Morality -- 6 Perceived Organizational Support (POS) -- 7 Organisational Rewards -- 8 Safety Communication -- 9 Safety Commitment -- 10 Favourable Job Condition -- 11 Fairness -- 12 Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) -- 13 Relationship -- 14 Historical Decisions -- 15 Safety Climate -- 16 Compliance -- 17 Loyalty -- 18 Hypotheses -- 19 Research Method -- 19.1 AHP -- 19.2 Analytic Hierarchy Process -- 20 Computation Details of AHP -- 21 Data Description -- 22 Conclusion -- References -- An Appraisal of Drivers to Efficient Occupational Health and Safety Performance Management for Small-Scale Contractors in Zambia -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Drivers to Efficient Occupational Health and Safety Performance Management -- 2.1 Management Strategy -- 2.2 Finance -- 2.3 Employee Involvement -- 2.4 Training and Promotion -- 2.5 Hazard Identification Management and Review -- 2.6 Actions for Continuous Improvement -- 2.7 Employee Wellbeing -- 2.8 Provision of Occupational Health and Safety Services -- 3 Materials and Methods -- 4 Results and Discussion -- 4.1 Background Data -- 4.2 Drivers to Efficient Occupational Health and Safety Performance Management -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Rule Based Safety Checking in Scaffolds by Integrating Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Safety Management -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Use of Integrating BIM and Safety Management in Construction.

The symbiosis between the law, economics and finance is evidenced in our daily lives. This book elucidates the relationship between these factors in Singapore and Hong Kong in direct and indirect real estate market. In Singapore, for example, there is an inseparable relationship between law, economics, finance and the HDB market. The book also showcases the concept of invitation to treat and offer, monetary compensation for environmental externalities under the lens of institutional economics. It also sheds light on the relationship between financial crisis, regulations, housing prices and indirect real estate market

The symbiosis between the law, economics and finance is evidenced in our daily lives. This book elucidates the relationship between these factors in Singapore and Hong Kong in direct and indirect real estate market. In Singapore, for example, there is an inseparable relationship between law, economics, finance and the HDB market. The book also showcases the concept of invitation to treat and offer, monetary compensation for environmental externalities under the lens of institutional economics. It also sheds light on the relationship between financial crisis, regulations, housing prices and indirect real estate market.

In 1960, Ronald Coase suggested that there are many methods to solve the problem of externalities apart from imposing Pigovian taxes. Internalisation is one of those noted in his classic paper, 'The Problem of Social Cost'. This paper studies the possibility of residents receiving compensation from pollutant generators. Data collected from Hong Kong law reports over the past 20 years show that there is forty‐fold increase in number of water seepage court cases since the first case in 1994. The total amount of compensation has also increased greatly. There are, however, far fewer court cases where residents seek compensation from generators of noise and air pollution. This may reflect a combination of high transaction costs and low expected benefits from such cases.

This paper examines residential property development in the Chinese cities of Harbin and Shanghai in 2001–07. It reveals that development firms generally only built one residential development during the study period, which contrasts with the situation in most developed countries, where large, established firms engage in numerous projects. This finding appears to contradict theories on economies of scale, brand names and reputation. It is argued that institutional failure may be largely responsible for the business practices observed.

Introduction -- Applied econometric models in international housing markets : theories and applications -- Risk averse real estate entrepreneurs in mainland China : a probit model approach -- Forecasting real estate stocks prices in Hong Kong : a state space model approach -- Market sentiment and property prices in Hong Kong : a state space model approach -- Superstitious and Hong Kong housing prices : a hedonic pricing approach -- Negative environmental externalities and housing price : a hedonic model approach -- The impact of subprime financial crisis on Germany and Norway real estate market : l1 -- Chow test and quantile regression approach -- Housing prices and external shocks : impact on South Africa and Czech Republic's housing prices : a vector error correction model and impulse response functions approach -- Factors which drive the ups and downs of housing prices in Canada : a Cobb: Douglass approach -- An econometric analysis on reits cycles in Hong Kong, Japan, the US and the UK -- Conclusion: should the mainstream economists neglect and undermine real estate economics? : the "wh-" questions in international housing markets, macro-economy and econometric models context