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Seven Reasons Why Real Estate Prices Will Hold Up for Now But Five More Reasons Why You Should Sit Up Straight and Pay Close Attention
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...
Tags: Commercial Real Estate, University Of Wisconsin, Reason, Financial Services, Real Estate, Business Operations
White papers 2004-11-08
Finance, Investment, and Investment Performance: Evidence From the REIT Sector
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...
Tags: Business Operations, Finance, Real Estate, Investment, Analysis, University Of Wisconsin, Performance, REIT
White papers 2004-10-01
Electricity Generation With Looped Transmission Networks: Bidding To An ISO
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...
Tags: Network, Retail Company, University Of Wisconsin, ISO, Retail, Iso standards, Quality, Business Operations
White papers 2004-06-15
Bargaining Over Residential Real Estate
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...
Tags: University Of Wisconsin, Real Estate, Business Operations
White papers 2004-05-11
Prohibitions on Health Insurance Underwriting: A Means of Making Health Insurance Available or a Cause of Market Failure?
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...
Tags: Vertical Industries, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software, Healthcare, Benefits, Insurance, Health Care, University Of Wisconsin, Health Insurance
White papers 2004-01-26
Asset Management And City Government
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...
Tags: Business Operations, Operational Planning, Government, Transportation, Asset Management, University Of Wisconsin, Asset
White papers 2003-08-26
Error Modeling For Automated Construction Equipment
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...
Tags: Construction Equipment, University Of Wisconsin, Positioning, Branding, Construction, Research & Development, LSM, Modeling, Business Operations, Marketing
White papers 2003-02-24
Diversifying into Real Estate: It’s a Good Thing
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...
Tags: Business Operations, Human Resources, Benefits, Real Estate, University Of Wisconsin, Article
White papers 2003-01-01
Diversifying into Real Estate It’s a Good Thing!
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...
Tags: University Of Wisconsin, Business Operations, Real Estate, Benefit
White papers 2003-01-01
The Role of Speculation in Real Estate Cycles
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...
Tags: University Of Wisconsin, Real Estate, Business Operations
White papers 2002-06-26
The Role of Speculation in Real Estate Cycles
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...
Tags: Cycle, University Of Wisconsin, Real Estate, Banking, Business Operations, Financial Services
White papers 2002-06-26
Noise, Real Estate Markets, And Options On Real Assets: Applications
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...
Tags: Business Operations, Operational Planning, Asset Management, Real Estate, University Of Wisconsin, Application, Asset
White papers 2001-04-01
Noise, Real Estate Markets, and Options on Real Assets: Applications
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...
Tags: Application, Asset, Business Operations, Real Estate, University Of Wisconsin
White papers 2001-04-01
Diversifying Into Real Estate: Its a Good Thing
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...
Tags: Asset, Asset Management, Real Estate, University Of Wisconsin, Operational Planning, Business Operations
White papers 2000-10-05
The Impact of Technology and the Internet on Commercial Real Estate
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...
Tags: Commercial Real Estate, Real Estate, Internet, Financial Services, Business Operations, University Of Wisconsin
White papers 2000-09-15
Real Estate Finance in the Midst of Change
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...
Tags: Business Operations, Financial Accounting, Real Estate, Finance, University Of Wisconsin
White papers 2000-07-01
Unsecured Debt Issuance and Financial Policy of Real Estate Investment Trusts
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...
Tags: REIT, Financial, University Of Wisconsin, Debt, Real Estate, Investment, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Finance
White papers 2000-07-01
Institutional Investors and REIT Equity Prices
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...
Tags: Business Operations, Investment, Real Estate, Investor, Finance, University Of Wisconsin, REIT
White papers 2000-06-01
A Pathway To Housing Goals, A Bridge To Commercial Mortage Market Efficiency
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...
Tags: Involvement, University Of Wisconsin, Efficiency, Mortgages, Real Estate, Financial Accounting, Finance, Capital Structures, Business Operations
White papers 2000-05-01
Market Efficiency and Return Statistics: Evidence from Real State and Stock Markets using a Present-Value Approach.
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...
Tags: Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance, Investment, Real Estate, Asset Management, Stock Market, Analysis, University Of Wisconsin, Stock, Asset Price, Asset
White papers 2000-05-01
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