Extreme risks associated with extraordinary market conditions are catastrophic for all investors. The ongoing financial crisis has perfectly exemplified this point. Surprisingly there are few studies exploring this issue for REITs. This study aims to close the knowledge gap. We conduct a...

"Tail dependence" characterizes the cross market linkages during stressful times. Analylzing tail dependence is of primary interest to portfolio managers who systematically monitor the co-movements of assets markets. However, the relevant literature on real estate securities markets is very...

Our study investigates the market-wide herding behavior in the U.S. equity REIT market. Utilizing the quantile regression method, we find that herding is more likely to be present in the high quantiles of the REIT return dispersion. This implies that REIT investors tend to herd under turbulent...

We investigate Big 4 pricing over the period 2000 to 2010. We classify the data into five periods: 2000-2001 as the pre-SOX period, 2002-2003 as the SOX period, 2004-2006 as the AS2 period, 2007 as the AS5 period, and 2008-2010 as the Great Recession period. These shocks to the audit market...

We investigate whether non-audit service (NAS) purchases are correlated among audit committee (AC) interlocked firms. We then examine whether financial reporting quality and future firm performance vary with the amount of correlated NAS purchases from the AC interlock. We find that firms in the...

Although ownership structure is fundamental to corporate accounting behaviors, the current literature provides scarce evidence about the governance effect of ownership structure on real earnings management (REM). We seek to address this issue by using a sample of Chinese listed firms which are...

This paper documents for the first time the relationship between mutual fund governance and mutual fund performance. Using the first release of the Morningstar Stewardship Grades on August 24, 2004, we find that funds receiving good grades outperformed funds with bad grades by 19 to 23 basis...

This study investigates whether financial analysts correctly weight cash flows, accruals and components of accruals in forecasting future earnings. This examination is in the spirit of Sloan (1996) who documents evidence that investors do not correctly distinguish between the cash flow and...

This paper documents for the first time the relationship between mutual fund governance and mutual fund performance. Using the first release of the Morningstar Stewardship Grades on August 24, 2004, we find that funds receiving good grades outperformed funds with bad grades by 19 to 23 basis...

In this paper we investigate the relation between audit committee quality, auditor independence, and the disclosure of internal control weaknesses after the enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. We begin with a sample of firms with internal control weaknesses and, based on industry, size, and...