For a large sample of U.S. companies, we compare the cost of equity estimates of a two-factor international CAPM with those of the single-factor domestic CAPM and the single-factor global CAPM. Our purpose is to assess how much difference it makes for U.S. firms to use the two-factor ICAPM...

For US firms with extreme foreign exchange (FX) exposure levels, we ask whether the single-factor global capital asset pricing model (CAPM) yields significantly different cost of equity estimates from the local CAPM. For a sample of US firms from 2000 to 2007, we find a clear and statistically...

For U.S. firms with extreme foreign exchange (FX) exposure levels, we ask whether the single-factor global CAPM yields significantly different cost of equity estimates from the local CAPM. For a sample of U.S. firms from 2000-2007, we find a clear and statistically significant relation between...

For US firms with extreme foreign exchange (FX) exposure levels, we ask whether the single-factor global capital asset pricing model (CAPM) yields significantly different cost of equity estimates from the local CAPM. For a sample of US firms from 2000 to 2007, we find a clear and statistically...

This paper adopts the methodology in Bali and Cakici (2008) in tracking the evolution of the relation between equity REITs' idiosyncratic risk and their cross-sectional expected returns between 1981 and 2010. In addition to the full sample period, we study this relation for (i) all sample REITs,...

Our paper makes two empirical contributions on REITs' asset pricing over three sequential and mutually exclusive time periods. The first yields the beta estimates of (i) assets, (ii) growth options and (iii) assets-in-place, embedded in the valuations of REITs. We develop a new approach to...