Ample literature builds on the notion that rising real estate values boost corporate secured borrowing ("collateral channel"). A new contract-level database allows us to observe the value, location, age, and end-use of firms' real estate holdings and all debts raised against those assets. Firms...

We examine the role that analysts play in a firm's choice of underwriter using a sample of major U.S. investment banks. In order to best capture the competitive environment, which is critical to the potential role that analysts play, we limit our sample of firms to 161 real estate investment...

This paper proposes a new methodology for decomposing REIT dividends into discretionary and non-discretionary components. By examining the tax characteristics of dividends, I am able to accurately measure the discretionary component of a REIT's dividend. This methodology provides new insights...

Previous studies of share repurchase have primarily focused on examining announcement effects and long-term operating performance in order to distinguish among the diverse possible hypotheses for repurchase. One of the most important rationales they have studied is the over-investment...

Commercial real estate indices play an important role in performance evaluation and overall investment strategy. However, the issue of how representative they are of the returns on portfolios of commercial properties is an open issue. Our study addresses this topic by analyzing a sample of...

We investigate the importance of cash flows as opposed to discount rates to the pricing of assets that, unlike common stock, are thinly traded but have reliable cash flow information. We rely on the dynamic Gordon model, which we adapt to deal with the thin trading environment, by developing a...

We propose a technique to infer cash flow yields for investment assets whose trades are infrequent, but for which cash flow data is available. We construct a Self-Propagating Rolling-Window Panel VAR framework, adapted from a Dynamic Gordon Growth Model setup. We use this framework to estimate...