Domino effects within a housing market: The transmission of house price changes across quality tiers

Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 299-316

  Ho, Lok Sang ^a   Ma, Yue ^a,b   Haurin, Donald R ^c  

^a LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Domino effect; Downpayment; Equity effects; Homeownership; Housing; Price dynamics; Privatization; Public housing; Ripple effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 54249093382     PISSN: 08955638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11146-007-9070-6     Document Type: Article

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