Commercial real estate has done just fine, in a non-inflationary environment. This would suggest that real estate is more of a stagnation hedge than an inflation hedge. Furthermore, the weakness in fundamentals has been driven by demand?not supply. This article provides seven reasons why commercial real estate prices will hold...
The paper examines financing, investment, and investment performance in the equity REIT sector over the 1981-1999 time period. Analysis reveals significant differences between the old-REIT (1981-1992) and new-REIT (1993-1999) eras. The sector experienced rapid growth in the new-REIT era, primarily from firm-level investment as opposed to new entry. Firm-level investment...
This paper uses a bilevel game to model markets for delivery of electrical power on looped transmission networks. It analyzes the effectiveness of an Independent System Operator ISO when generators (and, in some cases, retailers) have market power. Generators respectively retailers bid a single parameter of their quadratic supply demand...
This paper presents a new data set of individual residential property transactions. The main novelty of the data is the record of all listing price changes and all offers made between initial listing and sale agreement. The paper establishes a number of stylized facts pertaining to the sequence of events...
Underwriting restrictions are passed to discourage insurers from discriminating in a way that is contrary to social policy. In addition to prohibiting socially unacceptable discrimination, underwriting restrictions also have the potential of changing the consumption of insurance. This paper examines underwriting regulations that prohibit insurers from using disability status, gender...
Asset management is an emerging set of tools and skills that can help managers of transportation facilities make better maintenance and investment decisions. Since local governments own and operate 78 percent of the streets and roadways in the nation, most of the airports and most of the transit systems, some...
This paper introduces the statistical error modeling approach for a computer-controlled Large-Scale Manipulator LSM. The LSM is sufficiently representative of several types of construction equipment to be able to serve as a general test bed. In the analysis, three factors which are measurable in real time: distance, hydraulic pressure, and...
Article suggests that the significant diversification benefits are possible through the addition of real estate to a portfolio of stocks and bonds. There is also evidence that these benefits vary significantly over time and of the various assets examined, only real estate offers diversification benefits at the very time when...
This article uses the nonparametric Hansen-jagannathan volatility bound framwework to investigate the issue of diversifying into different asset classes. The restriction leads to the conclusion that during the 1972-98 period the mean variance frontier consisting of domestic U.S. stocks and bounds spans the frontier generated by the inclusion of real...
The economy, already suffering from unemployment and fluctuating prices, is now being plagued by rampant real estate speculation. This real estate speculation boom is an archfiend wielding terrible power, capable of blowing out the flickering signs of a hopeful economic recovery. In this paper the focus is on the latter...
This paper focuses on two explanations for housing price increases and volatility; and sets out why these factors are key for understanding the source of cycles. The paper first discusses alternative definitions of speculation. It then develops a conceptual model of how real estate and local business cycles can be...
This paper explores the implications of noise in real estate markets by examining two applications that focus on real option valuation and optimal exercise policy. The first application examines an imperfectly competitive market for real estate development in which agents compete over the timing of lead investment. Information spillover and...
This paper explores the implications of noise in real estate markets by examining two applications that focus on real option valuation and optimal exercise policy. The first application examines an imperfectly competitive market for real estate development in which agents compete over the timing of lead investment. The second application...
This paper examines different asset classes and concludes that only real estate seems to offer diversification benefits at the very times when these benefits are most needed, which is not true in many other assets. The results are established using the Hansen and Jagannathan model. Thus, it can be concluded...
Having emerged from the extreme market swings of the last twenty years, the commercial real estate market now must face dislocation precipitated by rapid technological change from both the Internet revolution and other sources. This study attempts to make some sense of the way in which technology will impact the...
Real estate financial markets have changed considerably in the past two decades. This is true in the U.S. where mortgage securitization is burgeoning and where households have gone on an unprecedented borrowing binge in the recent years. Also, very little is known about why property companies go public and whether...
This paper provides a systematic empirical analysis of the financial policy of equity Real Estate Investment Trusts REITs, with a focus on firms that issue unsecured debt. The paper finds that financial market conditions and bond rating interact to affect the unsecured debt offer spread, where lower credit quality debt...
This paper investigates whether the changing composition of institutional demand for REIT stocks can partially explain changes in the relative prices of REIT shares over the period 1993 to 1998. This paper investigates and observes that institutional investors have a significant preference for REIT shares with greater market capitalization and...
This study examines about multifamily finance in the context of its efficiency of operation in supplying capital to all segments of the multifamily rental market. It identifies four issues of importance in multi family finance. These are lack of data availability, efficiency f small loan market, prepayment and default risk...
This paper develops a methodology to identify asset price response to news in the framework of campbell-shiller log linear present value equations. It shows that slow price adjustment not only induces high serial auto correction in real estate excess returns, but also dampens their volatility and correlation with other asset...
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