This paper breaks assets' betas with common factors into components attributable to news about future cash flows, real interest rates, and excess returns. To achieve this decomposition the paper uses a vector autoregressive time-series model and an approximate log-linear present value relation....

This paper breaks assets' betas with common factors into components attributable to news about future cash flows, real interest rates, and excess returns. To achieve this decomposition the paper uses a vector autoregressive time-series model and an approximate log-linear present value relation....

Real estate finance is a fast-developing area where top quality research is in great demand. In the US, the real estate market is worth about US4 trillion, and the REITs market about US200 billion; tens of thousands of real estate professionals are working in this area. The market overseas could...