Developing a house price index for the Netherlands: A practical application of weighted repeat sales

Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 163-186

  Jansen, S J T ^a   De Vries, P ^a   Coolen, H C C H ^a   Lamain, C J M ^a   Boelhouwer, P J ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Heteroskedasticity; House price index; Revision volatility; Weighted repeat sales

Indexed keywords

EID: 46749128522     PISSN: 08955638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11146-007-9068-0     Document Type: Article

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