Post-issue stock underperformance is driven, at least in part, by the contemporary decline in idiosyncratic risk (proxied by idiosyncratic volatility) exposure for seasoned equity offerings (SEO) firms. As young firms dominate the SEO market, they generally face higher uncertainty of mean...

The risk premiums on real estate investment trusts (REITs) have exceeded and remained higher than those of stocks since the financial crisis of 2007--2008. In this paper, we investigate the reason why. Using the Campbell-Shiller beta decomposition, we find that REIT returns are more sensitive to...