This paper responds to the question of whether shares of public real estate companies should be treated as real estate or as equity investments. Such a classification in one of the asset categories can hardly be explained from a theoretical point of view. Thus, empirical correlation structures...

Based on theoretical rationales of an equilibrium model, we use macroeconomic and financial variables as proxies to empirically model their influence on the performance of risk capital in the U.S. The results show that venture capital investments are positively related to industrial production,...

This paper is the first to use quantile regression to analyze the impact of experience and size of funds of hedge funds (FHFs) on performance. In comparison to OLS regression, quantile regression provides a more detailed picture of the influence of size and experience on FHF return behaviour....

This paper examines the long-term impact and short-term dynamics of macroeconomic variables on international housing prices. Since adequate housing market data are generally not available and usually of low frequency, a panel conitegration analysis consisting of 15 countries over a period of...

This paper examines the in- and out-of-sample performance of various value-at-risk (VaR) approaches for commodity futures investments: conventional VaR, the Cornish-Fisher (CF) VaR, GARCH-type VaR models, and semi-parametric conditional autoregressive value-at-risk (CAViaR) models, which do not...

How does divided government affect the probability of economic policy change, and thus policy risk on financial markets? In contrast to the standard balancing model we argue that divided government, i.e., partisan conflict between the executive and the legislative branches, negatively affects...

This paper analyzes long - term comovements between hedge fund strategies and traditional asset classes using multivariate cointegration methodology. Since cointegrated assets are tied together over the long run, a portfolio consisting of these assets will have lower long-term volatility. Thus,...

This paper examines the redistributive effects of government partisanship on economic sectors. Based on a rational partisan perspective and policy-induced campaign contribution models we expect that once in office, ideologically different parties deliver favourable policies to different...

Partisan theory and extant evidence from parties' ideal policies suggest firms to perform better under right - than under left-leaning governments. If investors anticipate these effects of different parties holding office, changes in expected government partisanship should produce distinct...