Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study performance and market timing ability of equity real estate investment trusts (REITs). Design/methodology/approach – The authors use classical regression‐based framework and their multi‐index, multifactor, and conditional extensions to...

Purpose: The previous literature finds evidence from birth dates of CEOs that the relative-age effect continually influences their career success. The authors look at a significantly larger collection of CEOs and more exact information on school cut-off dates to reexamine the relative-age...