We use a unique and comprehensive data set on open-end real estate funds in Germany to study a liquidity crisis that hit this industry between 2005 and 2006. Since this industry is comparably unregulated our data set permits us to contrast competing explanations of liquidity crisis. We find that...

Naked short selling and purposeful fails-to-deliver have been identified in the popular press and by the SEC as contributing factors to the stock market decline in 2008. We investigate the market impact of the announcement that fails-to-deliver have occurred for a sample of real estate...

We investigate the impact of failures-to-deliver on the performance of 116 Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) during a period of substantial short selling (calendar years 2007 and 2008). REIT shares typically are easy to borrow, have high transparency (low information asymmetry), and are...

We use a unique and comprehensive data set on open-end real estate funds in Germany to study a liquidity crisis that hit this industry between 2005 and 2006. Since this industry is omparably unregulated our data set permits us to contrast competing explanations of liquidity crisis. We find that...

This chapter examines the main unlisted real estate funds available (openend funds and closed-end funds), as well as the most important listed real estate funds (REITs and ETFs based on real estate indices). The chapter also analyzes the extent to which analysis of publicly traded real estate...

Cross-border real estate investing offers opportunities for enhanced diversification. Investors often begin real estate investing domestically because local opportunities are more familiar and easier to undertake than cross-border (international) investments. As investors gain experience...

Option-based measures can predict underlying stock returns, due to differences in price discovery and price pressure effects between options and underlying stocks. We investigate stock return predictability by various option price-based measures using REITs. REITs are more transparent and...

We study the impact of S&P index membership on REIT stock returns. Given the hybrid nature of REITs, their returns may become more like those of other indexed stocks and less like those of their underlying properties. The existing literature does not offer clear predictions on these potential...

I present evidence that a moving average trading strategy dominates buying and holding the underlying asset in a mean-variance sense using monthly returns of value-weighted and equal-weighted US REIT Indexes over the period January 1980 until December 2010. The abnormal returns are largely...