User costs and bubbles in land markets

Journal of Housing Economics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 267-272

  Schreyer, Paul ^a  

^a OECD   (France)

Author keywords

Capital theory; Housing bubble; Housing fundamentals; Speculative behavior; User costs

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349798694     PISSN: 10511377     EISSN: 10960791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhe.2009.07.005     Document Type: Article

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