This paper studies the pricing of the risk associated with the location of the assets. The location risk is measured by ‘local beta’, which combines the systematic risk of local property markets and the property allocation strategy of real estate firms. The empirical results confirm a higher...

The well-documented negative association between idiosyncratic volatility (IV) and stock returns is puzzling if investors are risk-averse. We show that this anomaly is also prominent in the Chinese stock market. We attempt to explain the IV anomaly by using the key theories suggested by the...