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    CEO overconfidence, reit investment activity and performance
    (Wiley, 2015) Eichholtz, P.; Yönder, Erkan; International Finance; YÖNDER, Erkan
    This is the first article to study the effects of overconfidence on trading activity and performance in real estate. The article looks at Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), as their investments and divestments can be identified with precision. We look at the effect of CEO overconfidence on investment activity and separately investigate property acquisitions and dispositions. We find that REITs with overconfident CEOs tend to invest more; these REITs acquire more assets and are less likely to sell assets than their counterparts if they have enough discretionary cash. Valuable private information is not the main driver for CEOs to be net buyers of company shares: the shares of their companies perform relatively weakly. In addition, we find that overconfident managers have lower property investment performance measured by net operating income and gain on sale of real estate.
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    Corporate diversification and the cost of debt: evidence from REIT bank loans and mortgages
    (Springer, 2020-11) Demirci, İ.; Eichholtz, P.; Yönder, Erkan; International Finance; YÖNDER, Erkan
    This paper investigates whether corporate diversification by property type and by geography reduces the costs of debt capital. It employs asset-level information on the portfolios of U.S. REITs to measure diversification and looks at two of their main sources of debt capital: 1,173 commercial mortgages and 952 bank loans. The paper finds that diversification across different property types does indeed dependably reduce the cost of these different types of debt. The effect is about 7 basis points for bank loans if a firm’s property Herfindahl Index is lowered by one standard deviation and this effect gets stronger for REITs with worse financial health – as measured by the interest coverage ratio. The corresponding effect for commercial mortgages is around 22 basis points for collateral diversification by property type. After the crisis, the salience of the collateral asset increases. For diversification across regions, we do not find a consistent relationship between real asset diversification and loan pricing.
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    The economic effects of owner distance and local property management in US office markets
    (Oxford Publishing, 2016-07-04) Eichholtz, P.; Holtermans, R.; Yönder, Erkan; International Finance; YÖNDER, Erkan
    This paper is one of the first empirical studies to investigate the role of owner proximity or distance on the performance of commercial real estate and it is the first to analyze the economic benefits of property management in that regard. Using a large dataset of U.S. offices we analyze the relationship between investor distance to their assets and the effective rent of these assets, and study the extent to which property managers can influence this relation. We construct propensity score weighted hedonic rent models to control for other known rent determinants. It turns out that proximity matters: holding everything else constant, investors located closely to their office properties are able to extract significantly higher rents from these assets, especially if these buildings are of low quality. Interestingly, property managers can affect this relation, mitigating the adverse effects of investor distance on effective office rents. Especially if the property owner does not reside in the same state as the building, external property management is of importance, most prominently so for class-B office buildings.