Department of Land Economy | 50th Anniversary 1962 – 2012

Staff

Dr Helen Xiaohui Bao

Dr Helen Xiaohui Bao

Position(s):

  • University Lecturer.

Dr Helen Bao is a University Lecturer in real estate finance in the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge. She completed her PhD in the Department of Management Science, City University of Hong Kong. Prior to coming to Cambridge, she worked for the Centa–City Property Index project gaining extensive experience in residential property valuation and index number construction.

Contact information:

Tel.: +44 (0)1223 (3)37116
Email: hxb20

Research interests:

Focusing on the areas of valuation and housing economics, Helen′s research interests include hedonic price modelling using semi–parametric techniques, sample selection bias in property price indices and the land market and public housing policy in the Greater China Region.

Publications:

Refereed Journals

  1. "The Impact of the 2008 Olympic Games on Residential Property Prices in Wangjing, Beijing" (with M. Wang), Forthcoming, Journal of Real Estate Practice and Education.
  2. "Housing Price Dynamics: Evidence from Beijing" (with J. Yan and L. Feng), 2010, Frontiers of Economics in China, 5(1):52-68.
  3. "Inflation Hedging Characteristics of Real Estate Assets in Hong Kong" (with J. Glascock, L. Fan and L. Feng, in Chinese), 2010, Statistics and Decisions (in Chinese), 2010:1.
  4. "Property Rights and Housing Value: the Impacts of Political Instability" (with Y. Tu), 2009, Real Estate Economics 37(2): 235-257.
  5. "Modeling Price Dynamics in the Hong Kong Property Markets" (with Sherry Z. Zhou), 2009, Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management Journal, 1S: 8-26.
  6. "The Land Market in Hong Kong: Price Index and the Relationship with the Property Market" (with Sherry Z. Zhou), 2008, Journal of Real Estate Practice and Education, 11(2): 187–204.
  7. "Hedonic Valuation of Schooling in UK: The Case of Hertford Town" (with Peter D. Sweeney), 2008, Journal of Real Estate Practice and Education, 11(1): 75– 94.
  8. "Improved Estimators of Hedonic Housing Price Models" (with Alan T. K. Wan), 2007, Journal of Real Estate Research, 29(3): 267–301.
  9. "On the Use of Spline Smoothing in Estimating Hedonic Housing Price Models: Empirical Evidence Using Hong Kong Data" (with Alan T. K. Wan), 2004, Real Estate Economics. 32 (3): 487 - 507.

Working Papers

  1. "A Hedonic Analysis of the Effects of Transport Accessibility on Flat Prices in Hong Kong" (with John L. Glascock, L. Feng and Y. Liu), Under Review, Listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for 'Urban Infrastructure' in October 2008.
  2. "Land Value Determination in an Emerging Market: Empirical Evidence from China" (with J L Glascock, Sherry Z Zhou, & Lei Feng), Listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for ‘Managing in Emerging Markets’ in October 2009.
  3. "Government Policies and the Household Housing Choice Satisfactions across Four Housing Tenures: Evidence from Hong Kong", (with Y. Tu).

Last updated 2 February, 2012