Questions about the equivalence of market rents and user costs for owner occupied housing

Journal of Housing Economics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 273-279

  Heston, Alan ^a   Nakamura, Alice O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Consumer price index; Owner occupied housing; Rental housing

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349840707     PISSN: 10511377     EISSN: 10960791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhe.2009.07.007     Document Type: Article

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