Was there a U.S. house price bubble? An econometric analysis using national and regional panel data

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 189-200

  Clark, Steven P ^a   Coggin, T Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b Horizon Investments LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cointegration; Error correction models; Regional U.S. house prices; U.S. house price bubble

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954741748     PISSN: 10629769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.qref.2010.12.001     Document Type: Article

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