This paper contributes to the literature focusing on the impact of foreclosure status on single family house prices during a housing market collapse when foreclosures and distressed sales become the majority of recorded transactions. While it is generally possible to identify Real-estate owned...

This paper derives the relationship between a stock's beta and its weighting in the portfolio against which its beta is calculated. Contrary to intuition the effect of this market weight is in general very substantial. We then suggest an alternative to the conventional measure of abnormal...

This paper examines the relationship between the market weight of a single stock and the betas of both that stock and the residual portfolio. Theory suggests that the effect of such a large weight is to significantly reduce the beta of the residual portfolio, and it may also significantly raise...

Robert Shiller has long advocated the use of derivative real estate instruments to manage home equity risk. While his Nobel idea discusses the benefits to homeowners, to date, practical issues of hedging have been largely unexplored. Starting with the 2006 listing of real estate futures...

This paper contributes to the literature by examining whether the age and gender of the firm's top executives influence market-based measures of firm risk. Using data on the S&P 1500 firms, we document that CEO and CFO age and gender have a direct effect on market-based firm risk measures in...