Hoesli, Martin; Lekander, Jon; Witkiewicz, Witold - In: Journal of Real Estate Research 26 (2004) 2, pp. 161-206
This paper provides an international comparison of the benefits of including real estate assets in mixed-asset portfolios. Real estate returns are desmoothed using a variant of the Geltner (1993) approach, and Bayes-Stein estimators are used to increase the stability of portfolio weight...