This paper explains how common misconceptions about residential real estate returns contribute to unrealistic expectations about house price appreciation. The paper evaluates several comprehensive ways of computing residential real estate returns and discusses the relation between real estate...

We investigate the dynamic nature and temporal daily changes in systematic (beta), as well as idiosyncratic and total risk around restatement announcements. We find that beta increases by 51% at restatement announcement but it reverts to the pre-restatement level within one month. However,...

A large negative stock price reaction to a restatement announcement could imply a particularly significant accounting error, or one made by a firm that has a relatively high probability of being sued. This paper investigates the extent to which market reactions to restatement announcements are...