Hung, Mao-Wei; Wang, Ken P. Y.; Yen, Ju-Fang - 2023
The risk premiums on real estate investment trusts (REITs) have exceeded and remained higher than those of stocks since the financial crisis of 2007--2008. In this paper, we investigate the reason why. Using the Campbell-Shiller beta decomposition, we find that REIT returns are more sensitive to...