This paper examines stapled and traditional A-REITs, and their long-run relationships to common stocks, bonds, direct commercial real estate investments, and changes to consumer price inflation from December 1979 to June 2009. Stapled and traditional A-REIT indices are constructed from a sample...

This study explores the cross-sectional integration of stock and corporate bond markets by comparing a firm's expected stock return, as implied by corporate bond spreads, to its realized stock return. We compute expected corporate bond returns by correcting credit spreads for expected losses due...