“…There is some empirical evidence like those presented by (Virani & Kaur, 2015), (Reddy & Wong, 2016) or (Bai & Zhu, 2017) that shows the effect of this instrument on the liquidity of the market and its dependence of common market factors such as the interest rates and the risk premium. On the other hand, authors as (Dick, Rafferty, Toner, & Wright, 2017), (Nasieku & Wanyonyi, 2016) or (Wang, Cohen, & Glascock, 2018) show that the REITs influence the real estate industry, and through them, they affect other actual economic activities and variables. As the reader may see, the REITs are tax transparent and supposedly liquid financial instruments that may affect the real part of the economy through the size of its investments and its externalities.…”