This study examines asymmetries in real estate investment trust (REIT) returns using a variety of metrics, and compares them to several stock indexes and the U.S. long-term government bond index. The findings reveal that ...
We examine the relation between trading volume and skewness in 11 international stock markets using daily and monthly data from
January 1980 to August 2004. We construct single equation and VAR models of the relation ...
Spectral risk measures (SRMs) are risk measures that take account of user risk-aversion, but to date there has been little guidance on the choice of utility function underlying them. This paper addresses this issue by ...
This article examines the likelihood of high-sigma loss events, paying particular attention to the so-called 25-sigma events which a number of financial institutions have allegedly experienced in the recent financial ...
One stylized feature of financial volatility impacting the modeling process is long memory. This article examines long memory for alternative risk measures, observed absolute and squared returns for Daily Equity real estate ...
Purpose – This paper reviews traditional corporate governance and accountability research, to suggest opportunities for future research in this field. The first part adopts an analytical frame of reference based on theory, ...