We find that the Value Line effect is confined to U.S. stocks. U.S. listed stocks significantly outperform their benchmarks long after Value Line Timeliness rank change announcements. In contrast, we find no evidence of a Value Line effect for recommendations made for foreign stocks that list on...

This paper reconciles the controversy regarding the substitutability between equity REITs (EREITs) and mortgage REITs (MREITs) in existing literature. Using CRSP/Ziman data from 1992-2011, we show that the driving economic factors on EREIT returns are different from those driving MREIT returns,...