Revisiting the Anomalous Relationship between Inflation and Real Estate Investment Trust Returns in Presence of Structural Breaks: Empirical Evidence from the USA and the UK

Mahamitra Das and Nityananda Sarkar
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Mahamitra Das: Xavier School of Economics, Xavier University Bhubaneswar, Puri, Odisha, India,
Nityananda Sarkar: Economic Research Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, 2020, vol. 10, issue 1, 250-258

Abstract: In this paper we have re-investigated the frequently observed anomalous negative relationship between inflation (INF) and real estate investment trust (REIT) returns for two most important economies viz., the USA and the UK by addressing two aspects of misspecification: Inappropriate functional form and omission of relevant variable. We have found that the anomalous relationship between REIT and INF appear to proxy for the significant effect of relative price variability (RPV) on REIT returns (REITR) in both the countries. Further, it is evidenced that the effect of RPV on REITR is not stable over time in case of the USA while in the UK there is no structural change in the relationship.

Keywords: Real Estate Investment Trusts; Relative Price Variability; Inflation; Structural Breaks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E31 G12 R3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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