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Asymmetry in REIT Returns

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  • Elaine Hutson
  • Simon Stevenson

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Executive Summary.This study examines asymmetries in real estate investment trust (REIT) returns using a variety of metrics, and compares them to several stock indexes and the U.S. long-term government bond index. The findings reveal that skewness is inversely related to the index’s relative performance; the equity indexes exhibit negative skewness during the boom period of the late 1990s and become positively skewed after the technology stock crash in 2000, while for the REIT index, superior post-crash performance is accompanied by increasingly negative skewness. The results with respect to individual REITs are in contrast to many previous studies in that in the majority of cases the individual REITs display the same sign of skewness as the index data.

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  • Elaine Hutson & Simon Stevenson, 2008. "Asymmetry in REIT Returns," Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(2), pages 105-124, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:repmxx:v:14:y:2008:i:2:p:105-124
    DOI: 10.1080/10835547.2008.12089801
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