Irish house price indices - methodological issues

Economic and Social Review

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 403-423

  Conniffe, Denis ^a   Duffy, David ^a  

^a ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOUSING MARKET; METHODOLOGY; PRICE DYNAMICS;

IRELAND;

EID: 0033506791     PISSN: 00129984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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