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Impact of Different Economic Areas on Yield Rates in the V4’s Capitals’ Office Markets

Central European Economic Journal
Volume 12 (2025): Issue 59 (January 2025)
By: Krzysztof Adam Nowak  
Open Access
|Oct 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ceej-2025-0016 | Journal eISSN: 2543-6821 | Journal ISSN: 2544-9001
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Language: English
Page range: 260 - 283
Submitted on: May 25, 2025
Accepted on: Sep 15, 2025
Published on: Oct 31, 2025
Published by: Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
yield rate,
capitalization rate,
office market,
the Autoregressive Distributed Lag model (ARDL),
the Nonlinear Autoregressive Distributed Lag model (NARDL)
Related subjects:
Business and economics,
Political economics,
Economic theory, systems and structures,
Microeconomics,
Macroeconomics,
Economic policy

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