Housing supply price elasticities revisited: Evidence from international, national, local and company data

Journal of Housing Economics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 255-268

  Ball, Michael ^a   Meen, Geoffrey ^a   Nygaard, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Housing supply; International comparisons; Planning; Price elasticity; R31; Spatial persistence

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649716367     PISSN: 10511377     EISSN: 10960791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhe.2010.09.004     Document Type: Article

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