Aloha Ladies and Gentlemen,

Our "Commercial Real Estate in the Portfolio" session is scheduled for Saturday, January 5, 2002 at 10:15 a.m. in the Jackson room at the Hilton Hotel as part of the AREUEA annual conference, January 4th - 6th to be held in Atlanta, Georgia. Enclosed is a listing of presenters and discussants, a session schedule and the papers and/or abstracts submitted for presentation at the session. Please check to see that all of your personal information is correct as listed.

The format for the session is as follows:

Each author should send the final version of the paper to his or her discussant, as well as all other participants in the session no later than Friday, December 3, 2001. According to Marlene Hight at the ASSA, each person in our session must register for the meetings and pay the registration fee (translation: no arbitrage is allowed). Identification badges are required for admission to sessions and activities. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. Mahalo (thank you).

Me ka `oiã`i`o,
(with sincerity)
Crocker H. Liu
Associate Professor of Finance


ALLIED SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATIONS, January 4-6, 2002, Atlanta, GA

Day: Saturday   Time: 10:15 a.m. Date: January 5, 2002
Hotel: Hilton   Room: Jackson
Association American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association

Session Title: Commercial Real Estate in the Portfolio

Presiding: Crocker Liu, New York University

        Jeffrey Fisher and Seow Eng Ong, Indiana University and National University of Singapore --Valuation of Real Estate
        Portfolios

        David H. Downs and David W. Sommer, University of Georgia -- The Determinants of Real Estate Allocations for
        Life Insurers

        Brian Ciochetti and James D. Schilling, University of North Carolina and University of Wisconsin, -- New Evidence
        on the Disappearance of Small Cap Premium in Stock Prices

        Yuming Fu, University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Re-smoothing Appraisal Returns

Discussants:

Jarl Kallberg, New York University
Jim Clayton,University of Cincinnati
Daniel Quan, Cornell University
Clark Maxam, Montana State University
Presiding: Crocker Liu
Batting Order: Email all participants
Order
Presenter
Discussant
1
Jeffrey Fisher and Seow Eng Ong
"Valuation of Real Estate Portfolios"
Indiana University /Natl Univ of Singapore
Center for Real Estate Studies
Kelley School of Business, 
Bloomington, IN, 474051701
Phone: (812)855-7794
Fax: (812)855-9472
E-mail: fisher@indiana.edu
Email: seong@nus.edu.sg
Jarl Kallberg
New York University 
Stern School of Business 
Management Education Center 
44 West 4th Street, Suite 9-190 
NY, NY 10012-1126 
Phone: (212) 998-0339 
Fax: (212) 995-4233 
Email: jkallber@stern.nyu.edu
2
David H. Downs and David W. Sommer
"The Determinants of Real Estate Allocations for Life Insurers"
University of Georgia
Terry College of Business
296 Brooks Hall
Athens, GA, 30602-6255
Phone: (706)542-4450
Fax: (706)542-4295
E-mail: ddowns@terry.uga.edu
Email: dsommer@terry.uga.edu
Jim Clayton
University of Cincinnati
Department of Finance
ML 0195
Cincinnati, OH, 452210195
Phone: (513)556-7077
Fax: (513)-556-4891
E-mail: Jim.Clayton@uc.edu
3
Brian Ciochetti and James D. Shilling
"New Evidence on the Disappearance of Small Cap Premium in Stock Prices"

Brian Ciochetti
University of North Carolina
Kenan-Flagler Business School
CB# 3490 McColl Building, 
Chapel Hill, NC, 275993490
 Phone: (919)962-3127
 Fax: (919)962-5539
 E-mail: b_ciochetti@unc.edu

James D. Shilling
University of Wisconsin, Center for Urban Land Economics Research
975 University Avenue, 
Madison, WI, 537061323
Phone: (608)262-8602
Fax: (608)265-2738
E-mail: jshilling@bus.wisc.edu
 

Daniel Quan
Cornell University
Financial Management Department
435D Statler Hall, 
Ithaca, NY, 148530000
Phone: (607)255-6404
Fax: 
E-mail: dq22@cornell.edu
4
Yuming Fu
"Re-smoothing Appraisal Returns"
Department of Real Estate
School of Design and Environment
National University of Singapore
4 Architecture Drive
Singapore 117566
Tel : +65 874 5161
Fax : +65 774 8684
Email : rstfuym@nus.edu.sg
Clark L. Maxam
Montana State University 
College of Business 
446 Reid Hall 
Bozeman, MT, 597170000 
Phone: (406)994-4692 
Fax: (406)994-6206 
E-mail: gwin@babson.edu 
E-mail: seong@nus.edu.sg 
E-mail: clmaxam@montana.edu