A study of REITs in the Asia-Pacific area: volatility characters and their long-term relationship with stock indices

Abstract

This study examines some important characters of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) in six Asia-Pacific areas including Australia, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Korea and Hong Kong. The results show that volatility behaviours of REITs have Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedastic (GARCH) effects; in addition, REITs and stocks have a long term relationship in all markets.