Does clean air matter in developing countries' megacities? A hedonic price analysis of the Jakarta housing market, Indonesia

Ecological Economics

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1398-1407

  Yusuf, Arief Anshory ^a   Resosudarmo, Budy P ^b  

^a PADJADJARAN UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^b Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies   (Australia)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Environmental economics; Hedonic prices; Indonesia

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DEVELOPING WORLD; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; HOUSING MARKET; MEGACITY; PRICE DETERMINATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDONESIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 60249103353     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2008.09.011     Document Type: Article

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