Purpose: Based on the goal content theory (GCT), the purpose of this paper is to focus on the essence of goals and examine the associations between different work goal contents (intrinsic and extrinsic goals) and work performance. Design/methodology/approach: The data were collected from 279...

This paper reconciles the controversy regarding the substitutability between equity REITs (EREITs) and mortgage REITs (MREITs) in existing literature. Using CRSP/Ziman data from 1992-2011, we show that the driving economic factors on EREIT returns are different from those driving MREIT returns,...

We investigate the long- and short-term interrelationships between equity and mortgage real estate investment trusts (REITs) by focusing on decomposed income and appreciation components. We find that the previously documented long-term cointegration relation between equity and mortgage REIT...

We investigate long-term cointegrative and short-term causal relations among seven U.S. sectoral REITs. First, cointegration tests identify one long-term cointegrative relation among five of the sectors, which suggests that two of the sectors are outside the cointegrative space. Second,...