Credit risk exposure evaluation is driven by the quality of the information available on the debtors and customers with multiple lending exposures, which could be evaluated differently by different lenders. The existence of an information asymmetry among lenders can be mitigated using private...

The market for Italian real estate funds has been characterized in recent years by fluctuations affecting both the number of new products and their performance. It is therefore important to establish criteria for measuring the funds’ performances, based on the income return and capital growth...

Real estate investment is different from financial investment and such difference can affect the results of traditional mean -variance models. The literature on property finance summarises the differences of expected return and expected risk among individual real estate investments into four...

The hedonic price models on the office sector demonstrate the existence of a link between the rent and the vacancy of the area (Wheaton and Torto, 1988), the characteristics of the building (Clapp 1980) and the characteristics of the area (Gardiner and Henneberry, 1988). The role of each feature...

The rating offered by independent credit assessment institution represents an easy way to summarize the risk return profile of an investment and, especially in the United States, this tool is used also to evaluate the risk return profile of Real Estate investment products. The more relevant...