This study examines the effect of geographic scope in mitigating the adverse impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the real estate sector. Utilizing the Chinese setting over the two-month period in 2020 from the beginning of the outbreak to the successful containment of the spread of virus, we show...

This study examines the effect of geographic scope in mitigating the adverse impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the real estate sector. Utilizing the Chinese setting over the two-month period in 2020 from the beginning of the outbreak to the successful containment of the spread of virus, we show...

REITs restructure and rechannel the flows of capital within the real estate sectors. Rapid growing capitalization of REITs has gained the attention of individual and institutional investors and has shown REITs' potential as investment vehicles. How to evaluate those firms and what are their...

This study examines the behavior of the excess returns of publicly-listed real estate firms whose shares are traded in Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, and Thailand in widely-varying market situations. The results indicate that the publicly-traded stocks of real estate firms in...

Previous studies document the reversal in the initial returns of REIT IPOs from overpricing in the 1980s to underpricing in the 1990s. We find that the gross spreads of REIT IPOs decreased significantly in the 1990s. In particular, there is bimodal clustering at the 6.5% and 7.0% levels....

This paper examines the relation between CEO overconfidence and corporate financial distress. We investigate whether CEO overconfidence accounts for corporate financial distress using U.S. data from 1980 to 1994. We use CEOs' private portfolio and their press coverage as proxies for...

We examine networking effects on financial research based on a rich database of citations for all articles and editorial board membership information from a set of 23 finance journals during 1990-2010. Our findings show that a common characteristic amongst the premier journals (JF, JFE, and RFS)...

This study explores how information costs in host countries affected foreign expansion of the top 100 multinational banks from 2001 to 2007. Indices representing characteristics of credit reporting systems are used to proxy for banks' information costs in 103 host countries. We find that banks...

This paper examines the valuation effects of corporate name changes involved oil related terms during recent oil price surges. Using data from the U.S. and Canadian stock markets, we show that there is a tendency for companies in both markets to add oil or petroleum to their corporate names when...