Assessing the Financial Performance of Forestry-Related Investment Vehicles: Capital Asset Pricing Model vs. Arbitrage Pricing Theory

Capital asset pricing model (CAPM) and arbitrage pricing theory (APT) are used to assess the financial performance of eight forestry-related investment vehicles. Although results from APT support previous findings from CAPM about timberland investments, three bodies of evidence show that APT findings are more robust. The major conclusions are (a) institutional timberland investments and timberland limited partnerships have a low risk level and excess returns; (b) forestry industry companies have not earned risk-adjusted returns, and the performance of medium forest industry firms is worse than that of large firms; (c) stumpage price does not resemble the return generation process of timberland investments; and (d) lumber futures have little excess return.     

中国房地产市场弱式有效性的实证研究

研究目的:实证分析中国房地产市场有效性的水平。研究方法:根据萨缪尔森和费马的市场有效性假设对中国房地产市场的有效性进行检验。采用自相关性分析、工具变量法求解联立方程、VAR模型等进行统计检验并对结果进行分析。研究结论:中国房地产市场尚未达到弱式有效。