This paper extends Bjork and Clapham (2002) model for pricing real estate index total return swaps. Our extension considers counterparty default risk within a first passage contingent claims model. We price total return swaps on property indices with different levels of default risk. We develop...

REITs discount to NAV is a puzzling regularity. The sharp increase in volatility of REITs prices over the past few years has spurred a relatively new concern amongst academics, managers and investors about the consequences of, and causes of, property risk premium on discount to NAV. The two...

We apply a set of structural models (Merton (1974), Black and Cox (1976), Longstaff and Schwartz (1995), Leland and Toft (1996), Ericsson and Reneby (1998) and Collin-Dufresne and Goldstein (2001)) to estimate expected default probabilities (EDPs) for a sample of failed and non-failed UK real...

We apply a set of structural models (Merton (1974), Black and Cox (1976), Longstaff and Schwartz (1995), Leland and Toft (1996), Ericsson and Reneby (1998) and Collin-Defresne and Goldstein (2001)) to estimate expected default probabilities (EDPs) for a sample of failed and non-failed UK real...