Based on Diehold and Yilmaz's (2012) methodology, we estimate three return spillover indices in a four-asset system comprising equity REIT (EREIT), mortgage REIT (MREIT), stock, and bond for the sample period from January 1972 to September 2014. We find that the total return spillover risks...

Large shocks that spill over from one market to another market become increasingly more prevalent especially in recent years as investors switch liquidity more frequently from markets to markets. This study uses Diebold and Yilmaz (2012) methodology to measure return spillovers across asset...

This paper uses a numerical simulation based on the Crank-Nicolson method to estimate the value of a fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) with embedded prepayment and non-defaultable options. We find that the value of the FRM will increase when interest rates decrease, increasing the incentive for...

In recent years, housing booms have caused ghost town phenomena in many cities such as Dublin, Madrid, Dubai, etc. This paper derives a theoretical model to illustrate how activities of producers and rent seekers affect housing price booms in city centers and surrounding areas due to...

This paper revisits the effectiveness of Chinese monetary policy from augments concerning rational expectations. To estimate the dynamics of expectations, we incorporate market regime switching into the estimation of the rational expectations element using a recursive solution method. When...

This study empirically tests volatility effects on land development options using data on the government's land sales by tender for the period from 1995 to 2018. We find that development land option premiums increase by 6% on average with one standard deviation increase in conditional...