We simulate results from a simple real options model to provide insight into the value-growth stock return anomaly. In our model, firms possess either single ("value" firm) or multiple ("growth" firm) investment opportunities. Our model predicts that growth firms: (1) invest sooner, (2) exhibit...

This article examines the performance of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) mutual funds from January 1987 to June 1995. As a group, the MBS mutual funds underperform both the "Salomon and Lehman Brothers" MBS market benchmarks. The relative underperformance of the MBS mutual funds is due to poor...

We examine factors underlying the differences in commingled real estate fund (CREF) performance using a sample of 65 CREFs during 1985-2002. More than half of the individual CREFs underperformed the employed benchmark. However, portfolios of CREFs performed well in both up and down markets,...

This paper considers two aspects of the tendency for systematic risk to change during the period surrounding a firm-specific event. First, a statistic allowing for heteroskedasticity is presented as a means of more precisely testing for the incidence of structural change in the market model....