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Housing Investment in Poland as Inflation Hedge in Low and High Inflation. Threshold Cointegration Analysis

Real Estate Management and Valuation
Volume 33 (2025): Issue 2 (June 2025)
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|Jan 2024

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/remav-2025-0013 | Journal eISSN: 2300-5289
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Language: English
Page range: 23 - 38
Submitted on: Jul 13, 2024
Accepted on: Jan 7, 2025
Published on: Jan 20, 2024
Published by: Real Estate Management and Valuation
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 times per year
Keywords:
inflation hedging,
exchange rate,
real estate,
low and high inflation
Related subjects:
Business and economics,
Political economics,
Political economics, other

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