This study analyzes how three groups of market participants - insiders, analysts, and investors - revised their expected returns on New York Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) in response to the catastrophic events of September 11, 2001. The attack on the WTC represents a unique experimental...

This paper is an empirical investigation of the excess comovement of industry indexes in the U.S. stock market over the period January 1973 to December 2001. We define excess comovement as the correlation between two assets beyond what could be explained by fundamental factors. In our analysis,...

This study addresses the recent performance of the U.S. residential real estate markets. We investigate the comovement among Case-Shiller Home Price Indices for 14 metropolitan areas between 1992 and 2008. We identify the portion of this comovement deemed as fundamental (excessive), which we...

This study analyzes how three groups of market participants - insiders, analysts, and investors - revised their expected returns on New York Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) in response to the catastrophic events of September 11, 2001. The attack on the WTC represents a unique experimental...

We investigate the comovement among Case-Shiller Home Price Indices for 14 metropolitan areas between 1992 and 2008. We define the portion of this comovement deemed as fundamental (excessive) as the covariation that can (cannot) be attributed to common fundamental factors directly influencing...