Local Government Debt, Real Estate Investment and Corporate Investment: Evidence from China

Do Real Estate Shocks Affect Corporate Investment?

Real Estate Risk, Corporate Investment and Financing Choice

This paper examines how asset risk impacts corporate investment and financing decisions. We derive a general model that incorporates risk, adjustment cost, and depreciation features of assets-in-place into investment decisions. The model suggests that the risk and adjustment cost of assets-in-place reduce both corporate investment and financing. We empirically test the model in a panel of US fi...

The Role of Corporate Governance in Initial Public Offerings: Evidence from Real Estate Investment Trusts

This study analyzes the impact of corporate governance structures at the initial public offering (IPO) date. We test hypotheses that firms with more shareholder-oriented governance structures receive higher valuations at the IPO stage and have better long-term performance. Our sample is a set of 107 IPOs of real estate investment trusts (REITs) between 1991 and 1998. Using a single industry and...

Institutional investors as monitors of corporate diversification decisions: Evidence from real estate investment trusts

☆ Wewould like to thank an anonymous referee, Jeff and the participants at the 2010 American Real Estate Real Estate Investment Trusts, and the 2010 UC Irvine A research associate of the NBER and an advisor to Gers ⁎ Corresponding author at: Department of Finance, E-mail address: [email protected] 1 Lewellen (1971) discusses the coinsurance effect problems around equity offerings....

Institutions and Corporate Investment: Evidence from Investment-Implied Return on Capital in China∗

We assess the impact of institutions on Chinese firms’ corporate investment in an investment Euler equation framework. We allow the variables measuring institutions to affect the rate at which firm managers discount future investment payoffs. Applying generalized method of moments estimators to large samples of Chinese firms, we estimate the stochastic discount rates derived from actual investm...