How does appraisal smoothing bias real estate returns measurement?

Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 41-60

  Edelstein, Robert H ^a   Quan, Daniel C ^b  

^a University of California at Berkeley   (United States)

^b 335 Statler Hall   (United States)

Author keywords

Appraisal smoothing; Error aggregation; Real estate returns

Indexed keywords

EID: 31344466508     PISSN: 08955638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11146-005-5177-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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