Voraussichtlich zum 1. Januar 2013 beginnt die Implementierungsphase von Basel III, der zweiten Überarbeitung des Basler Akkords zur Regulierung der Kreditinstitute in der Europäischen Union. Mit der ersten Überarbeitung wurde 2004 eine vermeintlich genauer an die tatsächlichen Risiken...

Voraussichtlich zum 1. Januar 2013 beginnt die Implementierungsphase von Basel III, der zweiten Überarbeitung des Basler Akkords zur Regulierung der Kreditinstitute in der Europäischen Union. Mit der ersten Überarbeitung wurde 2004 eine vermeintlich genauer an die tatsächlichen Risiken...

This paper analyzes whether predominantly non-listed corporations in the residential property industry systematically adjust their capital structure to changing financing requirements. Since previous research almost exclusively focused on listed companies, little is known about the...

This paper analyzes diversification benefits from international securitized real estate in a mixed-asset context. We apply regression-based mean-variance efficiency tests, conditional on currency-unhedged and fully hedged portfolios to account for foreign exchange risk exposure. From the...

Extending the controversial findings from relevant literature on testing the efficient market hypothesis for the U.S. housing market, the results from the monthly and quarterly transaction-based Case-Shiller indices from 1987 to 2009 provide further empirical evidence on the rejection of the...

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of portfolio choice with popular foreign exchange (FX) investment styles such as carry trades and strategies commonly known as FX momentum, and FX value. We investigate if diversification benefits can be achieved by style investing in FX markets...

The primary contribution of this study is to assess whether public real estate markets and stock markets are linked at the local, regional, and global levels, and to assess the evolution of their dynamic relationship and gradual integration during the last two decades. For individual pairs of...

This paper analyzes long-run co-movements between international real estate stock markets and between regions based on bivariate and multivariate tests for cointegration. While the topic has been analyzed in previous studies such as Gallo and Zhang (2009) and Yunus (2009) among others, this...