Convergence of metropolitan house prices in South Africa: A re-examination using efficient unit root tests

Applied Econometrics and International Development

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 173-188

  Das, Sonali ^a   Gupta, Rangan ^b   Kaya, Patrick A ^b  

^a Future production Chemicals Cluster   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Efficient unit root tests; House prices; Law of one price; Price convergence; Single market

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956512235     PISSN: 15784487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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