Determinants of house prices in Istanbul: A quantile regression approach

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 305-317

  Ebru, Çaǧlayan ^a   Eban, Arikan ^b  

^a MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b FATIH UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Hedonic price model; Outliers; Quantile regression; Real estate market; Turkey

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650511107     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-009-9296-x     Document Type: Article

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