We create globally diversified real estate portfolios using cointegration methods over 1992-2009. Cointegration is robust to intertemporal correlation instability, identifies markets that share common factors and long-term trends, and identifies leading markets that do not respond to deviations...

We examine the role of competing exchanges to restore price parity following currency shocks during 2008, a year characterized by dramatic currency volatility. Burdens on the NYSE and home market to restore price parity for cross-listed stocks are more dynamic than previously thought....

We create globally diversified real estate portfolios using cointegration methods over 1992-2009. Cointegration is robust to intertemporal correlation instability, identifies markets that share common factors and long-term trends, and identifies leading markets that do not respond to deviations...

Studies of cross-listings show home markets dominate price discovery and point to informational advantages of local investors. However, we show price discovery gravitates to markets with better order execution quality and find home markets do not dominate price discovery. Instead, price...

We examine the robustness of size and book-to-market effects in 35 emerging equity markets during 1985-2000. Book-to-market effects are significant and are robust to tests accounting for non-normality and for firm size effects, and they do not depend on extreme returns. Size effects are also...