This paper develops a formal model to examine the effect of changing market conditions and individuals' selling constraints on selling price and time-on-market. Using the concept of Relative Liquidity Constraint (RLC) – a stochastic variable that captures the randomness of future individual...

Rational investors distinguish between extremely high and extremely low returns. The measures of investment risk should reflect such asymmetric risk perception. This study presents six asymmetric risk metrics and empirically tests their abilities in explaining the cross-sectional variations of...

This study investigates the potential for farmland to improve mixed-asset portfolio efficiency. Three major conclusions are drawn from the research. First, in a world with certainty, farmland can be shown to statistically improve mixed-asset portfolio efficiency. Second, with the introduction of...

Choosing the optimal holding period is an important part of real estate investment decisions, because "when to sell" affects "whether to buy". This paper presents a theoretical model for such decision making. Our model indicates that the optimal holding period is affected by both systematic and...

In this paper, we obtain bounds for the tail probabilities of limit variables of projection pursuit-type Kolmogorov statistics.

This paper examines the relationship between return predictability and REIT characteristics. We build a multifactor model based on a set of firm-specific factors that include (1) Risk factors; (2) Liquidity factors; (3) Expensiveness; (4) Profitability; and (5) Return history. Our model...

Recent market segmentation research has begun to delve into the issue of whether traditional property-type categories are sufficiently homogeneous to be modeled as aggregate real estate markets. This article extends the research on rental-property market segmentation by investigating the...

The actions of the federal government can have a profound impact on financial markets. As prominent participants in the government decision making process, U.S. Senators are likely to have knowledge of forthcoming government actions before the information becomes public. This could provide them...

Empirical evidence on the relationship between real estate price and selling time (time-on-market (TOM)) is mixed as to whether the price-TOM relationship is positive or negative. Competing theories also suggest opposite predictions about TOM’s impact on selling price. The article examines the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how long a real estate investment trust (REIT) initial public offer (IPO) survives until a merger occurs, and to determine the impact of different firm characteristics that exist at the time of the IPO on that survival in the aftermarket...