Weida Kuang

Biographic Data

ID6103389
NAMEWeida Kuang
GIVEN NAMESWeida
FAMILY NAMEKuang
SIGNATUREKUANG W
AFFILIATIONSRenmin University of China
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR4
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Do the motivations behind home sales matter? Evidence from China's housing resale market

    Open AccessYiqi Huang, Weida KuangARTICLEHabitat International2025References: 63

  • The role of agents in fraudulent activities

    Open AccessSumit Agarwal, S M Agarwal et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Economics2024References: 37

  • Inside job

    Open AccessYongqiang Chu, Weida Kuang et al.ARTICLEJournal of Policy Analysis and…2023References: 5

    Using a comprehensive data set of housing transactions in Beijing, China, we find that government officials are more likely than non‐officials to buy housing units before the government‐imposed housing purchase restriction policy. We also find that officials use their power to speed up the loan application process and pay higher prices to complete the transactions before the policy. Overall, the results suggest that officials trade on private inf…

  • Housing prices and household savings

    Weida Kuang, Tao Li et al.ARTICLEEconomic and Political Studies2019References: 4

    Based on precautionary saving motives, this research develops a three-period life-cycle model to manifest the impact of housing prices on household savings in urban China. The theoretical model illustrates that the expected appreciation of housing prices at a household’s middle age leads to the increase in household savings at a household’s young age. Second, household savings at a household’s young age are positively associated with both expecte…