Differences in housing price forecastability across US states

International Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 351-372

  Rapach, David E ^a   Strauss, Jack K ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoregressive distributed lag model; Coastal interior US states; Combination forecasts; Mean square forecast error; Real housing price growth

Indexed keywords

EID: 61849100476     PISSN: 01692070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijforecast.2009.01.009     Document Type: Article

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