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Bridging the information gap: what are the impacts of EPCs on Prague’s residential market selling prices?

Financial Internet Quarterly
Volume 21 (2025): Issue 4 (December 2025)
By: Tomáš Podškubka,  Barbora Rýdlová and  Josef Arlt  
Open Access
|Dec 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fiqf-2025-0026 | Journal eISSN: 2719-3454
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Language: English
Page range: 39 - 50
Submitted on: Jan 30, 2025
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Accepted on: Apr 28, 2025
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Published on: Dec 23, 2025
Published by: University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
Keywords:
Energy Performance Certificate,
Energy Efficiency,
Czech Housing Market,
Residential Properties,
Hedonic Regression Model
Related subjects:
Business and economics,
Political economics,
Economic theory, systems and structures,
Microeconomics,
Macroeconomics,
Public finance and fiscal theory

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