Using a sample of CCIM designees and candidates in an experimental setting, this study examines the impact of broker signaling in commercial real estate transactions. It also explores the effect of certainty of closure in commercial real estate transactions. Findings suggest brokers are able to...

Using a sample of CCIM designees and candidates in an experimental setting, this study examines the impact of broker signaling in commercial real estate transactions. It also explores the effect of certainty of closure in commercial real estate transactions. Findings suggest brokers are able to...

Recent research has shown that macroeconomic uncertainty is a significant factor that is contemporaneously incorporated into asset returns. Therefore, it should not have a role in predicting future returns. At the same time, separate research has demonstrated that illiquidity is related to...

The trading volume of Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) housing futures remains thin despite efforts to increase the prevalence of pricing models and the derivation of optimal portfolios for households. We apply actual CME data to the theoretical models of Voicu and Seiler (2012) to demonstrate...

Households that contemplate moving to different cities or trading up/down in the future are exposed to substantial housing risk. In order to mitigate this risk, we derive optimal portfolios using CME housing futures. Housing investment risk is hedged by selling housing futures amounting to the...

In this article, the financial portfolio model often referred to as the Black-Litterman model is described, and then mathematically derived, using a sampling theoretical approach. This approach generates a new interpretation of the model and gives an interpretable formula for the mystical...

This study is the first to empirically test both forward and (falsely induced) reverse information cascades in an experimental setting using real-time instant feedback to participants. We find that, on average, individuals abandon their private information sets in favor of the group's as early...

Over the last several years, the United States has experienced a significant recession. During this downturn, the number of real estate foreclosures has risen drastically. Recent studies have demonstrated a reduction in property values due to neighboring foreclosures – known as the foreclosure...

A one-factor pricing model is employed to investigate the internal consistency of single family home and professionally-managed property prices. The risk factor used here is the US real estate index, which has much stronger explanatory power than the S&P 500 index for real estate assets....