Labor protection increases employees' stability and strengthens their monitoring role, improving firms' information environment and increasing analysts' earnings forecast accuracy. Using the implementation of China's Labor Contract Law as a quasi-natural experiment, we find that labor protection...

This paper is the first to examine the relationship between the performance of public real estate companies (PRECs) and the industrial sector of their tenants. By investigating the performance of a large sample of European real estate firms from 2010 to 2019 and information pertaining to the...

This paper investigates the inflation hedging capability of listed real estate (LRE) companies from 1990 to 2021 in four economies: the US, the UK, Australia, and Japan. By using a Markov switching vector error correction model (MS-VECM), we identify that the short-term hedging ability moves...

We explore spatio-temporal aspects of global commercial real estate price movements and consider two channels where prices may spill over between global cities: (i) through a dominant market and (ii) through “neighbouring” markets. Neighbouring, here, is defined as the degree of overlap in...