This paper investigates whether obtaining sustainable building certification entails a rental premium for commercial office buildings and tracks its development over time. To this aim, both a difference-in-differences and a fixed-effects model approach are applied to a large panel dataset of...

The paper examines the impact of the advisor structure on the leverage of 265 US real estate investment trusts (REITs). The study employs panel data for the period 1994 to 2010. Externally advised REITs tend to choose lower leverage, a result which differs from that of Capozza and Seguin (2000)...