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Global construction trends.(For Openers: Just in from the Research Department)
McGraw-Hill Construction has issued its "Key Trends in the European and U.S. Construction Marketplace SmartMarket Report," produced in partnership with the Innovative Construction Research Centre at the University of Reading, United Kingdom. Its findings are particularly relevant, given the size of the impact construction has on...
Direct Investment In Commercial Real Estate
This paper formed the basis of the keynote address to the Pacific Rim Real Estate Society conference in Melbourne. In the asset allocation process, direct real estate investment suffers from some perceived disadvantages and this paper summarises research, funded by practice, into three of these perceived disadvantages; depreciation in value,...
A University of Reading lecture has won a prestigious risk management award.
M2 PRESSWIRE-7 December 2006-University of Reading: A University of Reading lecture has won a prestigious risk management award.C1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:07122006 Professor Carol Alexander, Chair of Risk Management and Director of Research at the ICMA Centre business school, has won...
Spillovers From Foreign Direct Investment: A Meta Analysis
The extensive empirical literature analyzing productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment to local firms provides inconclusive results. Some studies find that foreign presence has a positive impact on the productivity of domestic firms, while others find no evidence or a negative effect. Differences in the results may be attributable to...
The Changing Relationship Between Tax and Financial Reporting in Spain
The degree of connection between tax and financial reporting is regarded as a key factor in the study of international accounting differences. In order to measure the links between tax and financial reporting, this paper adopts the methodology of Lamb et al. (1998) by assessing major accounting topics using a...
Pricing Convertible Bonds by Simulation
Convertible bonds are complex hybrid securities subject to multiple sources of risk. Many exhibit exotic path dependent features. Monte Carlo simulation methods are usually the favorite choice for solving high-dimensional problems and pricing path dependent securities. This paper breaks away from the tradition established in the literature of pricing convertible...
Liquidity in Commercial Property Markets: Deconstructing the Transaction Process
One aspect of liquidity is the process by which transactions occur including both how properties are selected for sale and the time taken to transact. The paper analyses data from three organizations; a property company, a major financial institution and an asset management company, formally a major public sector pension...
The Present and Future of Financial Risk Management
Current research on financial risk management applications of econometrics centers on the accurate assessment of individual market and credit risks with relatively little theoretical or applied econometric research on other types of risk, aggregation risk, data incompleteness and optimal risk control. The paper reveals that consideration of the model risk...
Monetary Integration and Real Estate Markets: An Investigation of the Impact of the Introduction of a Single Currency on Real Estate Performance
This paper assesses the impact of the monetary integration on different types of stock returns in Europe. This paper assesses the impact of the monetary integration on different types of stock returns in Europe. In order to isolate European factors, the impact of global equity integration and small cap factors...
The Uncertainty of Valuation
The thesis of this paper is that uncertainty is a real and universal phenomenon in valuation. The sources of uncertainty are rational and can be identified. They can be described in a practical manner, and, above all, the process of identification and description will greatly assist many clients, and will...
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