Financial flexibility describes the ability of a firm to access and restructure its financing by avoiding financial distress in the face of negative shocks, and by funding investment when profitable opportunities arise. General finance literature as well as real estate specific studies are not...

This paper presents a dynamic multi-equation model based on a balance sheet identity, where technical aspects of capital structure are highlighted through separately observing debt and equity and their relationship to investment. Additionally, leverage dynamics are interpreted in their role for...

This paper presents a dynamic multi-equation model based on a balance sheet identity, where technical aspects of capital structure are highlighted through separately observing debt and equity and their relationship to investment. Additionally, leverage dynamics are interpreted in their role for...

This paper presents a dynamic multi-equation model based on a balance sheet identity, where technical aspects of capital structure are highlighted through separately observing debt and equity and their relationship to investment. Additionally, leverage dynamics are interpreted in their role for...

As the building and real estate sector is responsible for about 40% of the economyís end energy consumption, its potential to contribute to a sustainable development is accordingly high. In terms of mitigation of climate change, the response of the property sector is expressed by the diffusion...

Studies about the housing market based on fundamentals like income, construction costs, interest rate generally lacked in explanation power during the latest massive price move-ments especially in the US. The main reason for this might be that expectations of individu-als for further price...

This study follows the stream of research identifying sentiment trends by using online search query data. The potential of the Google data series for the U.K. housing market on a disaggregated level is analyzed in a panel VAR framework. The findings confirm existing research based on U.S....

Over the past few years, Google econometrics (Geco) turns out to be a powerful tool for research based on individuals rational. Following the seminal work of Ginsberg et al. (2009), this is the second academic journal contribution to be based on search query data from Google Insights for Search...

Since the evolutionary work of Modigliani and Miller (1958) financial researchers make desperate efforts about dynamics of capital structure - not mentioning a well-defined inference of leverage on returns. In the past decade this is also a concern for real estate research because most financial...