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René-Ojas Woltering, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Real Estate Finance at EHL. He holds a doctoral degree in Business Administration from the University of Regensburg. His research interests include real estate investment vehicles, investment strategies, and issues relevant to the hospitality industry.
His publications have appeared in scholarly journals such as the Journal of Banking and Finance, Real Estate Economics, and the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics. Dr. Woltering has gained valuable experience in the real asset management, investment management, and consulting industry. He is also awardee of several finance & investment competitions.
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Capturing the value premium : global evidence from a fair value-based investment strategy
This paper examines the risk premium of value stocks within a global investment strategy framework. We test whether absolute or relative mispricing is better suited to capturing the global value premium by using fair value-based net asset values...
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This paper challenges the convexity of the flow-performance relationship, according to which investors strongly chase top-performing funds, while fund flows exhibit little to no sensitivity to past performance within the segment of poorly performing...
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The discount to NAV of distressed open-end real estate funds
This paper examines the discount to NAV in the context of distressed German open-end real estate funds. This is a unique setting to study NAV discounts because distressed real estate funds are forced to sell off their property portfolios and pay out...
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Which stocks are driven by which interest rates ?
This paper analyzes the return sensitivities of real estate value and growth stocks to changes in five different interest rate proxies. Using a global sample of 352 listed real estate companies from 12 countries as a test object, we find that real...
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Public versus private market arbitrage : international evidence for listed property companies
This paper examines the performance of real estate firms that issue seasoned equity with the stated purpose of investing in private market assets. Prior literature documents that (i) firms, in general, underperform following a season equity offering...
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Mutual funds are connected with each other through overlapping portfolio holdings. We document that the performance of individual mutual funds is affected by spillover effects from fund flows to connected mutual funds. Spillover-effects are...
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Strategic transactions around REIT conversions
This article examines the conversion-related mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity and post-conversion performance of 80 international Real Estate Operating Companies (REOCs) that adopted Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) status. In the years...
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What determines the mean reversion speed of NAV spreads?
In this paper, we study the mean reversion behaviour of NAV spreads for a global sample of 219 listed real estate stocks. We find NAV spreads for companies trading at a high discount to mean revert fastest. Remarkably, we also provide evidence that...
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Fund closure risks of open-end real estate funds
Over the past decades, numerous open-end real estate funds (OEREFs) in several countries became unable to maintain the liquidity provision and had to suspend the redemption of fund shares. This paper examines OEREF closures in Germany, the world’s...
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Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) are a globally recognized form of real estate ownership that offer tax benefits at a corporate level. Despite their clear advantages, however, a significant share of potentially eligible Real Estate Operating...
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Yoong, K., Woltering, R. O., & Heo, C. Y. (2025). Revisiting Airbnb’s disruption of hotels: Uneven impacts across markets, segments, and accommodation types. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 126, 104073.
Schnejdar, S., Woltering, R.-O., Heinrich, M., & Sebastian, S. (2022). Fund Closure Risks of Open-End Real Estate Funds. Journal of Real Estate Research, 44(4), 447-472.
Schiller, A., Woltering, R.-O., Weis, C., & Sebastian, S. (2022). What determines the mean reversion speed of NAV spreads? Journal of Property Research, 39(4), 293-320.
Frömel, P., Wagner, D., Woltering, R.-O., Downs, D., & Sebastian, S. (2022). Strategic Transactions Around REIT Conversions. Journal of Real Estate Research, 44(4), 473-490.
Wagner D., Woltering, R.-O., Downs, D.H., & Sebastian, S. (2022). The REIT Conversion Puzzle. Journal of Real Estate Research, 44(3), 399-428.
Woltering, R. O., Downs, D. H., & Sebastian, S. (2021). Public versus private market arbitrage: international evidence for listed property companies. Journal of real estate research, 43(3), 355-381.
Weis, C., Woltering, R. O., & Sebastian, S. (2021). Which stocks are driven by which interest rates? evidence from listed real estate. Journal of property research, 38(3), 175-197.
Zhu, B., & Woltering, R.-O. (2021). Is fund performance driven by flows into connected funds? Spillover effects in the mutual fund industry. Journal of Economics and Finance, 45, 544-571.
Schnejdar, S., Heinrich, M., Woltering, R.-O., & Steffen, S. (2020). The Discount to NAV of Distressed Open-End Real Estate Funds. The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 61, 80-114.
Schiller, A., Woltering, R.-O., & Sebastian, S. (2020). Is the flow-performance relationship really convex? – The impact of data treatment and model specification. Journal of Economics and Finance, 44, 300-320.
Woltering, R.-O., Weis, C., Schindler, F., & Sebastian, S. (2018). Capturing the Value Premium - Global Evidence from a Fair Value-Based Investment Strategy. Journal of Banking & Finance, 86, 53-69.
Downs, D.H., Sebastian, S., & Woltering, R.-O. (2017). Real Estate Fund Openings and Cannibalization. Real Estate Economics, 45(4), 791-828.
Downs, D.H., Sebastian, S., Weistroffer, C., & Woltering, R.-O. (2016). Real Estate Fund Flows and the Flow-Performance Relationship. The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 52(4), 347-382.