This study extends from Liu and Mei (1992) by further investigation of assets, real estate related securities, which includes both equity and mortgage real estate investment trusts (REITs), the stocks of builderand owner-companies, and mortgagebacked securities (MBSs). There are five major findings. First, expected excess returns of real estate related securities are more predictable than the e...

Department of Plant Production and Genetics, Khuzestan Agricultural Sciences Natural Resources University, Ahvaz, Iran

Exploring the Family Contexts and Consequences of Addiction Phenomenon among Men in City Ahvaz

We use U.S. county data (3,058 observations) and 41 conditioning variables to study growth and convergence. Using ordinary least squares (OLS) and three-stage least squares with instrumental variables (3SLS-IV), we report on the full sample and metro, nonmetro, and and regional samples: (1) OLS yields convergence rates around 2%; 3SLS yields 6%–8%; (2) convergence rates vary (for example, the S...

BACKGROUND BK virus (BKV) belongs to the human Polyomaviridae and the primary BKV infection is occurred during childhood then the virus could be latent through life, especially in the kidneys and urinary system. It became reactive after an immunocompromised status, such as pregnancy or transplantation. Isolated BKV from different locations of the world is grouped into four subtypes using serolo...

This paper analyzes the application feasibility of CMM(Capability Maturity Model for Software) in real estate business management, and builds the CMM of real estate enterprises, It includes five levels, which describes respectively the business management ability levels for real estate enterprises of different levels of maturity. Through the application of the model, it indicates that CMM can h...

There has been criticism within the real estate professions that the lack of availability of good quality data has led actuarial professionals and academics to ignore real estate for modelling purposes. It has sometimes been asserted that this is one of the reasons for the decline in institutional investment in real estate, as asset allocation experts have ignored the asset class because of the...

In the real estate business, it is a common understanding that the value and potential of a property are fundamentally determined by its location. For real estate agencies, the real estate system can be used as an aid to selling and managing properties, for the buyers, the system can function as consultant in their decision making in purchasing properties. This emphasizes the significations of ...