SINGAPORE: A strange thing happens in Singapore after the government announces it’s selling highly-coveted land. Executives from developers bidding for the sites hit the golf course together.
In what it labels "insider trading, ” a landmark study by the National University of Singapore Business School found those firms paid 14% less for land at auction, costing the government hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue and dragging down prices of neighboring properties.
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