This paper seeks to determine whether analyst consensus is a function of the level of price informativeness, and therefore attempts to gauge the extent to which analyst consensus is high when market uncertainty is high. There is the view that a small or declining volume of trading implies less...

Under certainty, unlimited duration of private ownership of land provides landowners with efficient development incentives. However, in cases of ownership risk arising from title mistakes, fraud, boundary encroachment, or adverse possession, the statute of limitations sets a limit on how long...

This is the first study to examine the post-earnings-announcement drift anomaly in a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) context. The efficient markets hypothesis suggests that unexpected earnings should be fully incorporated into asset prices soon after being publicly announced. We hypothesize...

This is the first study to examine the post-earnings-announcement drift anomaly in a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) context. The efficient markets hypothesis suggests that unexpected earnings should be fully incorporated into asset prices soon after being publicly announced. We hypothesize...

The present study is an attempt to quantify the agglomeration risk in retail shopping centers. We accept that consumers are attracted to a shopping center in proportion to the mass of the anchor tenant. Nonetheless we feel it important to allow this attraction to be stochastic with its time...

Pension funds investment behavior have found to be persistent over time. Empirical findings of such persistence support conjectures that belief biases such as overoptimism and reputational concerns affect fiduciary investment behavior. Standard mean-variance analyses do not consider the...