Abstract
This study investigates a question relevant to many investors: do the broad Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) return characteristics reflect those of the broad direct real estate markets. The paper makes several contributions to the literature in addition to using more recent data: (1) we use data for six countries (Australia, France, Germany, Netherlands, the U.K., and the U.S.); (2) we estimate both country-specific and panel models to increase the reliability and generalizability of the analysis; (3) we estimate a structural vector autoregressive model to be able to better and more reliably interpret the various shocks in the system; and (4) we investigate the effects of global liquidity shocks, among other shocks. Our results indicate that over the mid to long horizon, broad REIT and direct returns have similar characteristics and are highly correlated at the panel level. Also, the two types of exposure to real estate exhibit similar reactions to economic shocks. Thus, the paper makes a case that investors do not necessarily need to worry much about compositional effects when aiming to track broad international direct market performance by investing in listed real estate
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 3032-3042 |
Number of pages | 22 |
Journal | Applied Economics |
Volume | 53 |
Issue number | 26 |
Early online date | 21 Mar 2021 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2021 |
Bibliographical note
AcknowledgmentsWe thank the European Public Real Estate Association (EPRA) for providing REIT market data, and an anonymous referee for helpful comments. The paper also benefited from comments received at the conferences of the American Real Estate Society (ARES) in April 2019 in Phoenix (USA), the European Real Estate Society (ERES) in July 2019 in Cergy-Pontoise (France), and EPRA in September 2019 in Madrid (Spain).
Funding
This work was supported by the European Public Real Estate Association.
Keywords
- listed real estate
- REITs
- portfolio diversification
- panel regression