Empirical Analysis of the Illiquidity Premia of German Real Estate Securities

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Paul ◽  
Thomas Walther ◽  
Andre Kuester Simic
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 2037 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk Brounen ◽  
Gianluca Marcato ◽  
Hans Op ’t Veld

By analyzing the adoption of the European Public Real Estate Association’s (EPRA) Sustainability Best Practices Recommendations (sBPR), we examine and discuss the application of transparent environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings and their interaction with public real estate performance across European markets. Due to increasing concerns about the environment and the impact of investment on society at large, public property companies have made significant progress in improving transparency and enhancing the protection of shareholder value by sharing and reporting ESG best practices. We explore and review the EPRA sBPR database, which is highly useful for investors who are already screening listed real estate companies. Hence, in this project, we carefully study the diffusion process of this new ESG metric as a tool to enhance informational transparency regarding public real estate investment management and assess the effects of this transparency and ESG performance for the real estate stock returns. We find evidence of a sustainability premium that investors are willing to pay to access companies with better sustainable ratings.


2017 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 311-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chyi Lin Lee ◽  
Simon Stevenson ◽  
Ming-Long Lee

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