The role of house prices in the monetary transmission mechanism across European countries

Scottish Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 519-543

  Giuliodori, Massimo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b DNB ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOUSING MARKET; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; PRICE DYNAMICS; VECTOR AUTOREGRESSION;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 28244486023     PISSN: 00369292     EISSN: 14679485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9485.2005.00354.x     Document Type: Review

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