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The thesis explores the determinants of auction outcomes for foreclosed properties in Seven Districts of Taipei city from 2008 through the first quarter of 2009. By employing a zero-truncated Poisson model, this thesis examines how house characteristics, auction characteristics and location characteristics affect the number of participating bidders. I also define the bidding premium as theratio of the difference between auction price and reserve price overthe reserve price and examines how characteristic variables influence the bidding premium.
Empirical results indicate that the properties with a middle-size floor area,or with a smaller ratio of land reserve to assessed value, and or auctioned in the firstquarter of 2009 compared to the last two quarter of 2008 attract more bidders. The bidding premium is mostly affected by the number of bidders. One more bidder raises about one percentage of bidding premium.
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