A three-equation simultaneous system is used to model the industrial property market in Great Britain. Strong relationships are found between new industrial building supply and both real rents and construction costs, and between rents, industrial floorspace availability and the gross domestic...

This paper employs a probit model and a Markov switching model using information from the Conference Board Leading Indicator series to detect the turning points in four key US commercial rents series. We find that both the approaches based on the leading indicator have considerable power to...

In this paper, we study bubble episodes in the United Kingdom private real estate sectors (Retail, O ces, Industrial) over the period December 1986 to April 2022. We use the backward supremum augmented Dickey Fuller (BSADF) approach of Phillips et al. (2015a,b) to identify bubbles and we...

The mid-term review of the WTO Doha Round of trade negotiations held recently in Cancun was concluded in a premature fashion by the hosts. Participants were not moving forward towards a process that would see the talks move towards a final agreement in 2004. This was a disappointment for New...