Introduction -- The Impact of Investor Sentiment on REIT Returns -- Investor Sentiment and the Return and Volatility of REITs and Non-REITs during the Financial Crisis -- The Impact of Consumer Sentiment on the Number of New Home Sales -- Dissertation Conclusions.

Demographic trends put a burden on EU pension provision. As the sustainability of pension systems is addressed by current pension reforms, lower benefit levels are projected. In this scenario, households may want to consider supplementing their public pension income. As their own residence is on...

Jaroslaw Morawski offers a practicable and theoretically well-founded solution to the problems encountered when investing in illiquid assets and develops a model of the liquidation process for this category of investments. The result is a coherent investment decision framework designed...

Aronoff challenges the conventional view that reckless credit produced the US housing boom and the financial crisis, explaining how the large current account deficit, and its mercantilist origin, was a more fundamental cause