The relationship between stock prices and real estate prices has been the subject of substantial debate in both the academic and practitioner literatures. Existing studies have focused on the time-series of stock and real estate returns using data from a single country, like the US. By...

The movement towards the quot;globalizationquot; of institutional investments necessitates an understanding of the historical relationship between international commercial real estate price changes and stock returns. Existing studies have focused on the time-series of stock and real estate...

In this paper, we propose a model of mechanism choice in the disposition of real estate assets. Specifically, we consider two alernatives: a search or negotiated sale and auction. Within the search framework, we derive an equilibrium whereby buyers incur costly search and sellers must incur...

To protect the interests of investors, commercial mortgage loans pooled for the issuance of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) have restrictive covenants that discourage the borrower from refinancing. Such restrictions limit the borrower's ability to access any accumulated equity. The...

We propose a model of mechanism choice in the disposition of real estate assets where we consider two alternatives: a search market and an auction. Within the search framework, we derive an equilibrium whereby buyers incur search costs and sellers incur holding costs for the period during which...

In a general auction model with affiliated signals, common components to valuations and endogenous entry, we compute the equilibrium bidding strategies and outcomes, and derive a lower bound on the optimal reserve price. This lower bound can be computed using data on past auctions combined with...

This paper investigates the impact of recourse on the workout process of portfolio commercial mortgage loans. A generalized model of mortgage workout with stochastic property value appreciation is developed and closed form expressions are derived for the relations between recourse and credit...