Asymmetric downside and upside co-movements between stock and REIT markets

ABSTRACT

This article aims to investigate whether stock and real estate investment trust (REIT) returns have asymmetric downside and upside co-movements. The investigation is carried out by employing a mixture copula with Markov-switching coefficients for weight, upper tail dependence and lower tail dependence. Empirical result demonstrates that an asymptotic independence and a positive relationship, which has greater dependence in the left tail than in the right tail, coexist. The empirical result provides useful information for making portfolio decisions. In the independent state, the inclusion of stock and REIT indices in a portfolio builds a diversified portfolio. However, a portfolio with stock and REIT assets cannot get the benefit of risk reduction in the positive dependence state.

KEYWORDS:

• REIT
• stock
• Markov-switching copula
• dependence

JEL CLASSIFICATION:

• C32
• C51
• G15

Acknowledgements

The author thanks the financial support provided by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan [MOST 104-2410-H-415-004].

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

Notes

¹ Due to space limitations, the complete empirical results are not reported but they are available upon request.

Additional information

Funding

The author thanks the financial support provided by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan [MOST 104-2410-H-415-004].