Rising Property Prices – Reason for Businesses to Celebrate?

Dialogues économiques
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
When real estate prices rise, it influences business investment. For large-scale property owners, this is something to celebrate, and investment increases. For those whose activities are smaller in scale, the outlook dims as investments decline. In their studies, Denis Fougère, Rémy Lecat, and Simon Ray are focusing on financial frictions with relation to property investments.
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