What is a tree worth? Green-city strategies, signaling and housing prices

Real Estate Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 213-239

  Wachter, Susan M ^a   Wong, Grace ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 43049113933     PISSN: 10808620     EISSN: 15406229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6229.2008.00212.x     Document Type: Article

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