We examine the capital market pricing implications of firm disclosure opacity as measured by the linguistic readability of REIT annual reports. The SEC has expressed concern that firms selectively manage the transparency of disclosures in order to hide adverse information. After controlling for...

This study introduces a new publicly traded real estate security known as an ETF REIT short share. In addition to examining the return, correlation, autocorrelation, partial-order autocorrelation, stationarity, and Granger Causality characteristics of this new investment vehicle, we demonstrate...