The Impact of Oil Price on European REITs Markets: Evidence from France and Belgium

• Main Authors: Hui-Ying Wu, 吳慧瑩
• Other Authors: Chien-Liang Chiu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/85188801293810130154

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 財務金融學系碩士在職專班 === 96 === The purpose of this paper is to explore the fluctuation of crude oil pricing in west Texas and significant negative affect, if any, towards European Real Estate Investment Trusts, (REITs) to understand and offer the decision maker of this market with further cognizance and reference information. This paper will use the bi-variables GARCH model in conjunction with example of data from France and Belgium, dating from 2nd, October, 2003 to 31st July, 2003. Considered variables and analysis the relationship between stock/bond market and REITs include: The West Texas Cushing Oil spot price growth rate, long-short term government bond interest rate and stock market returns. Furthermore, matching long and short term government bond interest rate of the two countries utilizing the ARMA model will capture the expected interest rate from market practice as the psychological factor affect to REITs returns. Examples in this research have proven that: 1.Belgium REITs return is insensitive to both long and short term government bond expected interest rate and the French REITs return is significantly sensitive to long term government bond expected interest rate obtains negative results, which means different countries may not obtain similar result to various interest rate fluctuations. Additionally, the returns of stock market in both nations appear significant positive results. 2.The fluctuation of petroleum prices, REITs returns of these two countries has no significant negative affect towards crude oil price uplifts. This implies at this time in age, skyrocketing crude oil pricing, when investors invests in the European controlling interest market, the intake of REITs products may minimize the risk impact brought upon by the crude oil price undulation, to disperse the risk factor. 3. REITs returns of Belgium and France has significant volatility clustering characteristic, which results in correlating fluctuation effect of the REITs returns. This reveals the European REITs market returns rate has chained effects. 4.On the other hand, the Belgium REITs’ return is affected by first quarter of French REITs return, but not the other way around. This means, in a nation with larger scaled market capitalization, the prosperity of its real estate market will affect the nations with smaller market capitalization scale. Lastly, I sincerely wish the findings in this paper may offer investors with further knowledge and analytical information when making real estate investment decisions toward the European market in hoping to avoid potential risk and minimize fluctuation of the integrated portfolio returns.