Uncertainty due to Infectious Diseases and Forecastability of the Realized Variance of US REITs: A Note

Matteo Bonato; Oguzhan Cepni; Rangan Gupta; Christian Pierdzioch

Uncertainty due to Infectious Diseases and Forecastability of the Realized Variance of US REITs: A Note

Matteo Bonato, Oguzhan Cepni, Rangan Gupta, Christian Pierdzioch

Department of Economics

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Abstract

We examine the forecasting power of a daily newspaper-based index of uncertainty associated with infectious diseases (EMVID) for Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) realized market variance of the United States (US) via the heterogeneous autoregressive realized volatility (HAR-RV) model. Our results show that the EMVID index improves the forecast accuracy of realized variance of REITs at short-, medium-, and long-run horizons in a statistically significant manner, with the result being robust to the inclusion of additional controls (leverage, realized jumps, skewness, and kurtosis) capturing extreme market movements, and also carries over to ten sub-sectors of the US REITs market. Our results have important portfolio implications for investors during the current period of unprecedented levels of uncertainty resulting from the outbreak of COVID-19.

Original language	English
Publisher	University of Pretoria
Number of pages	12
Publication status	Published - Oct 2020

Series	Working Paper Series / Department of Economics. University of Pretoria
Number	2020-99

Keywords

Uncertainty
Infectious diseases
REITs
Realized variance
Forecasting

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