The political economy of housing prices: Hedonic pricing with regression discontinuity

Journal of Housing Economics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 133-144

  Sue, Eddie D W ^a   Wong, Wei Kang ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Hedonic pricing; Political economy; Publicly provided local goods and services; Regression discontinuity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953292726     PISSN: 10511377     EISSN: 10960791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhe.2010.03.003     Document Type: Article

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