| Paper title: | NAV discount analysis using the appraisal reduction | 
| Authors: | Giacomo Morri and Roberto Lupieri | 
| Summary: | This work is aimed at explaining the closed-end fund puzzle using the “rational” or funda-mental approach on a sample of tax-privileged real estate companies. NAV discounts in UK REITs and French SIICs over a five-year period is analyzed in order to find its drivers also us-ing a new methodologies. After a traditional approach testing seven independent variables over four model specifications, the ungeared discount formula is used in order to take in ac-count bias in the way the traditional discount is computed. Eventually, a new approach based on the “appraisal reduction” considers investor sentiment by reducing appraisals be-fore NAV calculation. By eliminating the market sentiment, it is possible to better identify firm-specific factors that capture their sole contribution to the NAV discount explanation. Results show that there is indeed a change in the relationship between leverage and NAV discount. Moreover, liquidity and performance are not always significant, management re-muneration and investment activity are perceived similarly in France and in the UK while size has a different effect in the two markets. | 
| Type: | normal paper | 
| Year of publication: | 2012 | 
| Series: | ERES:conference | 
| Download paper: | /pdfs/eres2012_088.content.ppt | 
| Citation: | Giacomo Morri and Roberto Lupieri (2012). NAV discount analysis using the appraisal reduction. 19th Annual European Real Estate Society Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, http://itc.scix.net/paper/eres2012_088 |