In this paper, we study the international and sectoral diversification potential in realestate portfolios. Building on … statistical test to compare country-leveland sector-level diversification potential. This new diversification test provides … for real estate investments broadly reveal that international diversificationdominates sectoral diversification …

Gaston Michel investigates whether shocks to real estate markets constitute an important source of the risk that is … priced in the cross section of equity returns. His results document that real estate risk explains a large part of the cross … pricing story: higher asset returns must be associated with lower prices and higher risk exposure. In particular, he …