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REITs, real estate, and inflation: Lessons from the gold market

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This studyindirectly tests whether equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) proxy for real estate when examining real estate's inflation hedging ability. The hedging properties of gold, an underlying asset, are compared against those of gold stocks, a securitized form of the asset, and gold is shown to perform well as an inflation hedge, while gold stocks do not. This divergence between an asset and its securitized form suggests caution in drawing conclusions about real estate's ability to hedge inflation from equity REIT studies.

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  1. Marriott School of Management, Institute of Business Management, Brigham Young University, 671 Tanner Building, 84602, Provo, UT

    Alan B. Larsen & Grant R. Mcqueen

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Larsen, A.B., Mcqueen, G.R. REITs, real estate, and inflation: Lessons from the gold market. J Real Estate Finan Econ 10, 285–297 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01096943

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