The risk premiums on real estate investment trusts (REITs) have exceeded and remained higher than those of stocks since the financial crisis of 2007--2008. In this paper, we investigate the reason why. Using the Campbell-Shiller beta decomposition, we find that REIT returns are more sensitive to...

This paper explores the importance of firm dynamics, including entry and exit and the allocation of carbon emissions across firms, on the green transition. Using the 2000–2019 firm-level register data on greenhouse gas emissions matched with the Financial Statement data in the Finnish...

In this paper we augment the Bayesian unobserved components model of the EU Commission to estimate the cyclical component of total factor productivity (TFP gap) with a factor structure to include a wide array of business cycle indicators. We demonstrate that this model extension considerably...

We assess whether motherhood could be the last hurdle to achieving gender equality in developing countries by exploring the link between motherhood and the overall gender gap in the labor market for 14 Latin American countries over the last two decades. Using pseudo- panels built from harmonized...

This work presents a new convex risk measure that we call negative quadratic skewness that is an approximation of the negative component of portfolio skewness. This risk measure allows us to increase portfolio skew- ness through the minimization of the negative quadratic skewness. First, we show...