Gold investment as an inflationary hedge: Cointegration evidence with allowance for endogenous structural breaks

Applied Financial Economics Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 259-262

  Worthington, Andrew C ^a   Pahlavani, Mosayeb ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SISTAN AND BALUCHESTAN   (Iran)

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EID: 34547293430     PISSN: 17446546     EISSN: 17446554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17446540601118301     Document Type: Article

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