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Fisher, Geltner, and Webb (1993), in a highly influential paper, develop a procedure to recover the underlying market values from a smoothed valuation-based commercial property return index, without assuming that the underlying property market is informationally efficient. Many papers since then have used the Fisher–Geltner–Webb unsmoothing technique to desmooth commercial property returns. We show, however, that there is an inherent bias in Fisher–Geltner–Webb unsmoothing technique and propose a simple extension of their model to correct for this bias. We then compare the performance of our improved specification to that of the Fisher–Geltner–Webb model.
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Cho, H., Kawaguchi, Y. & Shilling, J.D. Unsmoothing Commercial Property Returns: A Revision to Fisher–Geltner–Webb's Unsmoothing Methodology. The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics 27, 393–405 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025898325952
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025898325952