Cotter, John; Roll, Richard(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial MarketsUniversity College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2009-10-28)
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) are the only truly liquid assets related to real estate investments. We study the behavior of U.S. REITs over the past three decades and document their return characteristics. REITs ...
This study presents nonparametric estimates of spectral risk measures (SRM)
applied to long and short positions in five prominent equity futures contracts. It
also compares these to estimates of two popular alternative ...