Purpose – To develop an integrated approach to forecasting spot foreign exchange rates by incorporating some principles underlying long‐term dependence. Design/methodology/approach – The paper utilises the random‐walk framework to develop a stochastic forecast model wherein the sign...

This paper examines whether there was contagion from the Thai securitised real estate market to four other prominent Asia‐Pacific property markets. Based on Forbes and Rigobon's methodology for calculating conditional and unconditional correlations, analysis shows that there was some contagion...

Understanding cyclical activity is an important component of efficient portfolio management. Property appraisal models that do not explicitly take into account cyclical fluctuations may produce unrealistic valuation estimates resulting in property assets being incorrectly added to or removed...

Purpose – To develop an integrated approach to forecasting spot foreign exchange rates by incorporating some principles underlying long-term dependence. Design/methodology/approach – The paper utilises the random-walk framework to develop a stochastic forecast model wherein the sign...

This paper examines the sensitivity of real estate securities to changes in both market and central bank interest rates. It is commonly viewed that the traded real estate market is one of the industry sectors most susceptible to interest rate movements. This is due to traditional high levels of...