Japanese housing tenure choice and welfare implications after the revision of the tenant protection law

Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 357-383

  Seko, Miki ^a   Sumita, Kazuto ^b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA SEIRYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Compensating variation; Conditional logit; Housing tenure choice; Japan and deregulation; Rent control; Rental housing; Sample selection bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548444167     PISSN: 08955638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11146-007-9040-z     Document Type: Article

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