When a real asset rises in price faster than inflation (as real estate did in the late 1970s) and rises significantly in price over an extended period (as real estate has done for the last decade and one-half), it concerns valuation and investment professionals who fear about it being...

A restricted portfolio is constructed which includes NYSE common stocks, corporate bonds, government bonds, small capitalization common stocks, residential real estate and farmland and returns for each of four different tax brackets (0%, 15%, 30%, 45%). Next, three alternative measures of rates...

In this study, we expand the analysis of the impact of the options penny pilot project (PPP) using a sample that covers the first three phases of the project, a control group of options that were not part of the project, and options market specific control variables. We show that proportional...

Inflation has become one of the predominant financial concerns of the late twentieth century. In the late 1970s, public opinion polls ranked inflation as the number one problem in the United States. While the rate of inflation has slowed since the late 1970s, inflation is still present and many...

Private sector investors, as well as public sector policy analysts and consumers, need accurate historical estimates of returns for single-family houses. In addition, researchers need such data to understand capital flows and supply/demand relationships among asset classes. Unfortunately, such...

This study examines the inflation-hedging abilities of REITs over the period 1972:2-1992:12 to determine whether REITs act as a hedge against expected and/or unexpected inflation. The time period used in this study is substantially longer than in earlier studies. A model of real estate returns...