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 …

containing varying proportions of gateway and non-gateway markets. Risk-adjusted performance is found to be similar across types … returns even after accounting for capital expenditures. Downside risk appears to be slightly greater for gateway markets than … risk is found to be constant across types of markets. We show that discriminating between gateway and non-gateway markets …