We investigate the stock market reaction to 447 announcements of business relocation decisions in the 1978-1990 period. We find that the stock market reaction to such decisions is tied to the motive for the relocation and the implied prospects for the firm, with the type of facility being...

Previous research on real estate investment trusts (REITs) assumes that their dividend policies are determined solely by tax regulations. We observe, however, that REITs often pay out more dividends than are required by tax rules. This paper examines the dividend policies of REITs by drawing...

This study performs empirical tests of the semistrong form efficiency of a real estate investment market. An asset pricing model is utilized to estimate the abnormal returns resulting from two types of public information, major changes in government tax shelter and rent control policies as well...

Residential mortgage markets in both the United States and Canada have recently been dominated by instruments such as variable-rate and short-term rollover mortgages which require borrowers to assume a greater burden of interest rate risk. An outstanding question is whether this approach to risk...

Using a revised model framework that views expected adjusted prices of corn-parables as random variables, Green (1994) demonstrates that Vandell's (1992) minimum variance estimator is preferred under the classical ordinary least squares (OLS) assumptions. As a result, the minimum coefficient of...

Recent articles by Giliberto [2] and Geltner [1] examine the biases inherent in the use of appraisal data in real estate performance measurement. This note takes another look at the direction and magnitude of any bias in holding period returns. Using appraisal data from a commingled 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...