Flight to quality? An investigation of changing price spreads in commercial real estate markets

Studies in Economics and Finance

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 2-16

  Fuerst, Franz ^a   McAllister, Patrick ^b   Sivitanides, Petros ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NEAPOLIS UNIVERSITY PAFOS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Commercial real estate; Investment markets; Real estate cycles; Risk return relationship

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924027209     PISSN: 10867376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/SEF-10-2013-0155     Document Type: Article

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