Consumption and Investment Motives and the Portfolio Choices of Homeowners

Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 159-180

  Brueckner, Jan K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Homeownership; Mean variance inefficient; Overinvestment; Portfolio

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031501147     PISSN: 08955638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007777532293     Document Type: Article

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