This paper explains how common misconceptions about residential real estate returns contribute to unrealistic expectations about house price appreciation. The paper evaluates several comprehensive ways of computing residential real estate returns and discusses the relation between real estate...

We analyze the determinants of expansions and contractions of shopping centers using a unique dataset of property level data for shopping centers in eleven metropolitan areas over the period from 1995 through 2005. We find that shopping centers with large operating costs are less likely to...

Using new data on S&P 1500 firms’ CEO-to-employee pay ratios disclosed by mandate of Section 953(b) of the Dodd-Frank Act, we examine the effect of within-firm pay inequality on bond yield spreads. We find a significant negative relation between industry-adjusted CEO-to-employee pay ratio and...

This paper presents and validates a novel empirical approach for measuring the value of the option to redevelop using a standard hedonic dataset. Our analysis generalizes the standard hedonic model to account for the option value of reconfiguring hedonic characteristics. We test this model with...

The standard hedonic model of durable assets is a special case of a more general model that contains two additive terms: 1) use value of the existing hedonic vector and 2) the value of the option to reconfigure hedonic characteristics. One empirical implication is that the two parts of value are...

We reexamine the effect of financial restatements on the cost of equity vis-a-vis litigation risk. Specifically, we study the effect of litigation on post-restatement financing costs and whether market anticipates litigation before restatement announcement as evident from its effect on financing...

We investigate the dynamic nature and temporal daily changes in systematic (beta), as well as idiosyncratic and total risk around restatement announcements. We find that beta increases by 51% at restatement announcement but it reverts to the pre-restatement level within one month. However,...

We examine whether corporate social responsibility (CSR) is used to signal product quality and whether CSR affects firm value through its positive effect on product market perception. Using a proprietary database, we find that visible CSR, such as environmental and community involvement,...

This paper tests whether the dynamics of firm growth metrics, such as sales, investment growth, and changes in Ramp;D and acquisitions, are more consistent with firms delivering growth when stock prices are more sensitive to growth related news (the catering channel) or with firms learning from...