A team of SMU researchers investigated the complex relationships between economy, geography, real estate and health to unravel important policy implications. SMU Assistant Professor of Economics Li Jing said that studying how land prices evolve along with rapid successive auctions is an essential step towards understanding the dynamics of real estate markets in Asia. Together with her colleagues, Assistant Prof Li set up a model that captured the sequential bidding behaviour of land developers, while also taking into consideration the final phase of property construction. She also expressed interest to collaborate with colleagues at SMU's School of Information Systems, who specialise in digitalising and analysing data related to geography, to shed light on various issues related to urban structure at the micro level, and combine economics and psychology to make economic theory more relevant to a variety of real-life scenarios.