This paper uses the Case-Shiller U.S. house price indices to analyze spatial dependencies across 16 metropolitan markets for the period January 1989 to June 2006. Return transmission patterns establish New York, San Francisco, and Miami to be among the most influential markets. In terms of...

The study analyzes the influence of macroeconomic news announcements on (a) interest rates for commercial mortgages, residential mortgages, 10-year Treasury notes, and Baa-rated corporate bonds; and (b) corresponding mortgage spreads. It is both interesting and highly relevant from a policy and...

This paper posits that the failure of past studies to document a positive relationship between REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust) returns and inflation is an artifact of the empirical framework that has predominated in these studies. Applying a pooled estimation methodology to an expansive data...

Determinants of ADR's idiosyncratic risk are examined from the perspective of undiversified investors. Since ADRs enjoy a unique status, vis-agrave;-vis US companies, we study whether determinants of their risk, derived from a two-stage regression model, are different from the one for U.S. firms....

This study examines various determinants of idiosyncratic risk from the perspective of un-diversified REIT investors, managers holding options, other option holders, and arbitrageurs. Since real estate investment trusts (REITs) enjoy a unique organizational structure and tax status, the relevant...

This study examines various determinants of idiosyncratic risk from the perspective of un-diversified REIT investors, managers holding options, other option holders, and arbitrageurs. Since real estate investment trusts (REITs) enjoy a unique organizational structure and tax status, the...

There is a significant ever-growing controversy about the role of R&D in the corporate decision-making structure for the US markets. R&D results have been found to be lack-luster creating erosion of trust in the value of R&D in American corporate world. This study sheds light on the relationship...

Jensen, Johnson, and Mercer (1997) demonstrate that ME and BE/ME do not significantly explain the cross-section of stock returns during periods of contractionary monetary policy. In this study we use a dataset of stocks screened in the manner of a Fama and French 1992. We use a simple AR(1)...

Intraday currency futures prices react to both surprises in the federal funds target rate (the target factor) and surprises in the anticipated future direction of Federal Reserve monetary policy (the path factor) by a similar magnitude, and the reaction is short-lived. Dollar-denominated...

Intraday currency futures prices react to both surprises in the federal funds target rate (the target factor) and surprises in the anticipated future direction of Federal Reserve monetary policy (the path factor) in similar magnitude, and the reaction is short-lived. Dollar-denominated currency...