Mortgage choice: What's the point?

Real Estate Economics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 173-205

  Stanton, Richard ^a   Wallace, Nancy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0032393104     PISSN: 10808620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1540-6229.00743     Document Type: Article

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