The housing bubble and a new approach to accounting for housing in a CPI

Journal of Housing Economics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 156-171

  Diewert, W Erwin ^a   Nakamura, Alice O ^b   Nakamura, Leonard I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hedonic approach; Housing bubble; Opportunity cost; Owner occupied housing; Rental equivalency; Repeat sales; User cost

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349840677     PISSN: 10511377     EISSN: 10960791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhe.2009.07.008     Document Type: Article

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