Working Papers

2021 Research 

Location Density, Systematic Risk, and Cap Rates: Evidence from REITs

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 11 Jun 2021 Last Revised: 13 Jun 2021
Quent Capital, Penn State Smeal College of Business, University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance and People's United Advisors

Firm Location and the Value-Growth Premium

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 08 Jun 2021 Last Revised: 17 Jun 2021
Brent W. Ambrose, Yifan Chen and Timothy T. Simin
Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania State University and Pennsylvania State University
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Eviction Risk of Rental Housing: Does it Matter How Your Landlord Finances the Property?

FRB of Philadelphia Working Paper No. 21-05
Posted: 14 May 2021
Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia 

REIT Capital Structure Choices: When Does Preparation Matter?

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 21 Apr 2021
Cal State Fullerton, Simon Fraser University (SFU) - Finance Area, Penn State Smeal College of Business and University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School, Department of Real Estate

Information in Financial Contracts: Evidence from CMBS Pooling and Servicing Agreements

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 26 Feb 2021
Brent W. Ambrose, Yiqiang HanSanket Korgaonkar and Lily Shen
Pennsylvania State University, Clemson University, University of Virginia and Department of Finance, Clemson University 

Amazon Is Coming to Town: Private Information and Housing Market Efficiency

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 04 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 22 Feb 2021
Pennsylvania State University, University of Nevada, Reno and Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business
 

2020 Research

Do Real Estate Values Boost Corporate Borrowing? Evidence from Contract-Level Data

Posted: 28 Dec 2020
Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Miami Herbert Business School - Department of Finance, University of Pittsburgh - Katz Graduate School of Business and Penn State Smeal College of Business

Eviction Risk of Rental Housing: Does it Matter How Your Landlord Finances the Property?

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 19 Dec 2020
Brent W. Ambrose, Xudong An and Luis A. Lopez
Pennsylvania State University, Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and University of Illinois at Chicago 

Do Private Equity Investors Create Value? Evidence from the Hotel Industry

HEC Paris Research Paper No. FIN-2020-1410
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 16 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 22 Dec 2020
HEC Paris - Finance Department and Penn State Smeal College of Business 

How Different Is Real Estate? A Story of Factors

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 14 Oct 2020
Liang Peng
Smeal College of Business, The Pennsylvania State University 

Divergence of House Prices in the United States: 2000 to 2015

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 01 Oct 2020
Liang Peng and Lei Zhang
Smeal College of Business, The Pennsylvania State University and North Dakota State University

Did the Paycheck Protection Program Help Small Businesses? Evidence from Commercial Mortgage-backed Securities

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 16 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 27 May 2021
Sumit Agarwal, Brent W. Ambrose, Luis A. Lopez and Xue Xiao
National University of Singapore, Pennsylvania State University, University of Illinois at Chicago and Pennsylvania State University 

Quantitative Easing and Financial Risk Taking: Evidence from Agency Mortgage Reits

FRB of Dallas Working Paper No. 2020
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 08 Jul 2020
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and Penn State Smeal College of Business 

Online Appendix -- Does Borrower and Broker Race Affect the Cost of Mortgage Credit?

Review of Financial Studies (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 01 Jul 2020
Brent W. Ambrose, James Conklin and Luis A. Lopez
Pennsylvania State University, University of Georgia and University of Illinois at Chicago 

Past Experiences and Investment Decisions: Evidence from Real Estate Markets

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 04 Jun 2020
Brent W. Ambrose and Lily Shen
Pennsylvania State University and Department of Finance, Clemson University 

Financial Flexibility and Manager–Shareholder Conflict: Evidence from Reits

Real Estate Economics, Vol. 48, Issue 1, pp. 200-239, 2020
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 04 Jun 2020
University of Wisconsin - School of Business - Department of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics and Penn State Smeal College of Business 

Estimating Housing Rent Depreciation for Inflation Adjustments

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 27 May 2020 Last Revised: 12 May 2021
University of Illinois at Chicago and Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business 

The Bank of Japan’s ETF Purchase during COVID-19

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 08 May 2020 Last Revised: 01 Jun 2021
University of Tokyo - Graduate School of Public Policy and Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business 

The Bank of Japan as a Real Estate Tycoon: Large-Scale REIT Purchases

Handbook of Real Estate and Macroeconomics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 03 Apr 2020
University of Tokyo - Graduate School of Public Policy and Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business