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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...
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...
Expert Judgment in the Processes of Commercial Property Market Forecasting
This paper examines the ways in which human subjective judgment impacts on the process of real estate market forecast production and the consequent effects on outcomes. In so doing, the research draws upon concepts both from cognitive psychology and from principal-agent theory that emphasize the potential of biases and incentives...
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...
Who Should Buy Hedge Funds?: The Effects of Including Hedge Funds in Portfolios of Stocks and Bonds
Using monthly return data on 455 hedge funds over the period 1994-2001 the document studies the diversification effects from introducing hedge funds into a traditional portfolio of stocks and bonds. The results indicate that although the inclusion of hedge funds may significantly improve a portfolio's mean-variance characteristics, it can also...
Commercial Real Estate Return Distributions: A Review of Literature and Empirical Evidence
This paper reviews the literature on the distribution of commercial real estate returns. There is growing evidence that the assumption of normality in returns is not safe. Distributions are found to be peaked, fat-tailed and, tentatively, skewed. There is some evidence of compound distributions and non-linearity. Public traded real estate...
The Cost of Choice: How Corporate Real Estate Managers Evaluate Business Space Options
This paper considers the question: Are occupiers currently in a position to make rational decisions when faced with a wide and diverse range of choices? The paper draws on the research findings from a study that took place during the autumn of 1999 and early 2000, which examined how occupiers...
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