FOREIGN INVESTMENT AND THE BRAZILIAN REAL ESTATE MARKET

Foreign Investment and Consolidation in the Brazilian Mobile Telecommunications Market

During the implementation of market-based reforms in mobile telecommunications, the Brazilian Government opted for dividing the country in ten regions, thus creating a highly fragmented market. Later on, through several mergers and acquisitions the market was consolidated by three main foreign groups. This paper analyses the rationale behind the Government’s decision to fragment the market and ...

Questioni Di Economia E Finanza Italian Real Estate Investment Funds: Market Structure and Risk Measurement Questioni Di Economia E Finanza Italian Real Estate Investment Funds: Market Structure and Risk Measurement Italian Real Estate Investment Funds: Market Structure and Risk Measurement

This paper describes the Italian real estate investment funds industry, providing an overview of the distinctive features and risk factors of this sector. By using accounting and supervisory data, we: (1) compute the returns of the real estate assets in the portfolio of these funds; (2) construct a price index and a total return index of the real estate assets held by the Italian funds; (3) def...

Real Estate Investment in Taiwan - an Examination of the Recent Opening of Real Estate Markets to Foreign Entities

In hope to revitalize the slumping real estate markets and sluggish economy, the government of Taiwan, Republic of China, has recently opened up direct real estate investment opportunities to foreign entities. In conjunction with the joining of WTO, Taiwan hopes that foreign funds and maybe even investment from Mainland China will infuse capital and uplift the markets. Nevertheless, the potenti...

Brazilian Pension Funds: Real Estate

The objective of the thesis is to analyze the participation of Brazilian pension funds in the real estate sector, with special attention to their historical motivations. The thesis also describes the prospects of future investments in the sector once that both pension funds and the real estate industry are experiencing great transformation in that country. Since their regulation in the late 197...

Foreign Direct Investment and the Single Market*