Why do firms pay dividends? To answer this question, we use a hand-collected data set of companies traded on the London stock market between 1825 and 1870. As tax rates were effectively zero, the capital market was unregulated, and there were no institutional stockholders, we can rule out these...

We find the correlation movements among eight developed securitized real estate markets and among their stock markets are quite synchronized over the periods from 1995 through 2012. There is a high degree of correlation dependence with many of the realized correlation series subject to regime...