The aim of this study is to examine whether securitized real estate returns reflect direct real estate returns or general stock market returns using international data for the U.S., U.K., and Australia. In contrast to previous research, which has generally relied on overall real estate market...

For most of the past decades, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region has experienced rapid expansion, driven largely by increasing energy revenues, and growth-focused government policies. As the region's population increases in size, and becomes wealthier and more urbanized, significant...

This paper argues that since China closes her asset markets, investors turn to Hong Kong instead. The initial public offerings (IPO) of Chinese firms in the Hong Kong stock market and the local housing market of Hong Kong improve the prediction of each other, as they may serve as a coordinator...

We explore the questions of why Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITS) pay more for real estate than non-REIT buyers and by how much. First, we develop a search model where REITs optimally pay more for property because (1) they are willing, due to cost of capital advantages and, (2) they are...

For the last several years, the price of listed real estate stocks has been unusually high relative to dividends. We explore whether low interest rates or low risk premia can account for the high valuation ratios and find that they cannot. Lower interest rates have been offset by rising risk...

Investors have historically used listed real estate to achieve a number of outcomes, ranging from general exposure to the asset class to meeting specific returns characteristics such as inflation hedging and tax-efficient income generation. However, following the events of the last five years,...

The study examines the relationship between systematic risk of Australian Real Estate Investment Trusts (A-REITs) and their debt characteristics over the period 1995 to 2008, controlling for firm size, organizational structure, property type, and time varying patterns in beta estimates. Both...

We analyze the valuation and return performance of real estate trusts (RETs), the 19th-century predecessors of REITs. In contrast to REITs, RETs were not required to adhere to any statutory REIT regulations. Similar to modern-day REITs, we find that dividend growth rather than discount rates...

This paper empirically examines the theoretically ambivalent relationship between socially responsible investing (SRI) and stock performance. It extends the existing literature by considering both the US and the entire European stock markets as well as by using consistent world-wide corporate...

We report results on the ex ante predictability of monthly excess stock returns in Germany using real-time and revised macroeconomic data. Our real-time macroeconomic data cover the period 1994-2005. We report three results. 1) Real-time macroeconomic data did not contribute much to ex ante...