The paper characterizes several empirical regularities of closed- end fund prices and examines the extent to which a 'sentiment' model of asset prices is consistent with the empirical regularities. We find that after controlling for the effect of cross-border investment restrictions, country...

The recent US Real Estate Bubble had consequences not only for the real economy but for the stock market as well. Real Estate Investment Trusts' (REITS) prices reached levels which could not be supported by their fundamentals until mid-2007. Using this observation as a starting point we examine...