Are there bubbles in the REITs market? New evidence using regime-switching approach

Ohannes George Paskelian, M. Kabir Hassan and Kathryn Whittaker Huff

Applied Financial Economics, 2011, vol. 21, issue 19, 1451-1461

Abstract: This study looks for the presence of rational speculative bubbles in Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) using unit-root, variance ratio, duration dependence and regime switching regression tests. The regime switching method provides weak evidence of speculative bubble behaviour in both the mortgage and hybrid REITs sectors even though traditional econometric bubble tests do not provide evidence of rational speculative bubbles in all REIT markets. Findings suggest that price movement in mortgage and hybrid REITs may be induced by bubble-like behaviour of investors. This behaviour may be traced to the real estate market bubble. Our results provide evidence that the real estate bubble that started in early 2000 was transmitted into securitized real estate markets. A regime switching model also provides a clear metric that signals the probability of a collapsing bubble. This is something with the potential to be appreciably helpful to portfolio managers.

Keywords: rational speculative bubbles, REITs; regime-switching tests, duration dependence tests, (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1080/09603107.2011.577009

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