Purpose – Though stock portfolio return autocorrelation is well documented in the literature, its cause is still not clearly understood. Presently, evidence of private information induced stock return autocorrelation is still very limited. The difficulty in obtaining foreign country...

We examine short interests in equity real estate investment trusts (REITs) between 1994 and 2001. Our results show that only high levels (the 90th percentile) of short interest are associated with significant negative REIT returns as the bearish content of short interest may have been mitigated...

This paper studies performance of real estate mutual funds between 1993 and 2001. The results indicate that real estate mutual funds do not provide positive abnormal performance on average. Fund performance to a large extent is determined by performance of the real estate sector as a whole....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to try to identify the motivation of firms that announce share repurchase but do not follow it up with the actual purchase. The authors conjecture that the long-term earnings quality of such firms is low, which makes them poor candidates for actual stock...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of acquirer's earnings quality on the choice of payment method in mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Design/methodology/approach – The paper applies a simultaneous equations model to address the concern of endogeneity between...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of managerial decision horizon (MDH) on real estate investment trust (REIT) behavior and performance. Design/methodology/approach In this study, the authors expand the number of proxies and measure managerial horizon by CEO age, CEO...