%0 Journal Article %A Yu-Tai Yang %A Tzu-Yi Yang %A Hao Fang %A Yi-Ching Liaw %T Economic Indexes Affecting the Rate of Return of Real Estate Investment Trusts in Taiwan %D 2014 %R 10.3905/jpe.2014.17.2.051 %J The Journal of Private Equity %P 51-59 %V 17 %N 2 %X At the end of December 2010, Taiwan had eight Real Estate Investment Trusts funds listed on the regular and or over-the-counter (OTC) stock markets, and these serve as the main research targets for studying the correlation between rate of return and all economic indexes. This investigation uses Stata SE11 for correlation coefficient analysis, and found that ”Construction Index”, “Price Index”, “Rental Index”, “Interest rate of ten-year Central Government Bond” and ”Construction Stock Index” were positively correlated with the rate of return of the eight real estate investment funds.TOPICS: Private equity, real estate, emerging, statistical methods %U https://jpe.pm-research.com/content/iijpriveq/17/2/51.full.pdf