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...

Asness et al. (2018) demonstrate the reemergence of the size premium (SMB) once one controls for firm quality within time series regressions. We demonstrate that the size premium disappears during periods of monetary tightening and is present during periods of monetary expansion; whether or not...

We evaluate the investment benefits of dividend-paying stocks and make three major findings. First, high-dividend stocks have the least risk, yet return over 1.5% more per year than non-dividend payers. Second, the benefit of targeting dividend payers is conditional on investment style....

In this paper, we provide evidence that the size premium (SMB) is more significantly related to monetary policy than to firm quality or to business cycle troughs. Across both economic expansion and contraction periods, whether we control for firm quality or not, we show that monetary tightening...

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...

We evaluate real estate investment trust (REIT) responses to the release of REIT-specific and macroeconomic news over two periods with differing economic climates. More specifically, using high-frequency data, we track the response function over a period of 60 minutes following each...

This paper proposes a variant application of the Merton distance-to-default model by employing implied volatility and implied a cost of capital to forecast defaults. The proposed model's results are compared with predictions obtained from three popular models in different setups. We find that...