Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF) index. NCREIF total return and appreciation indexes are smooth and exhibit strong autocorrelation and autoregressive heteroscedasticity. We test the information transmission from the NAREIT index to the NCREIF index. In our VAR analysis, the...

This paper examines the relationship among daily information flow, return volatility, and bid-ask spreads based on the framework of the mixture of distribution hypothesis (MDH). The MDH model is modified to permit separate effects of informed and liquidity trading volume on return volatility....

We investigate the cross-sectional predictive relations between stock returns of two public firms with one firm, the parent, owning partial equity of the other, the subsidiary. We find that high past returns of the subsidiary (parent) predict high future returns of the parent (subsidiary). The...