Asset Meltdown: Fact or Fiction?

Marcel Marekwica, Raimond Maurer, Steffen P. Sebastian

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Abstract

Executive Summary. This paper analyzes the relation between demographic structure and real asset returns on Treasury bills, bonds, and stocks for the G7 countries (United States, Canada, Japan, Italy, France, the United Kingdom, and Germany). A macroeconomic multifactor model is used to examine a variety of different demographic factors from 1951 to 2002. There was no robust relationship found between shocks in demographic variables and asset returns in the framework of these models, which suggests that asset meltdown is rather fiction than fact.
Original languageEnglish
JournalThe Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management
Volume17
Issue number1
Pages (from-to)27-38
ISSN1083-5547
Publication statusPublished - 2011

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