Intrametropolitan Decentralization: Is Government Structure Capitalized in Residential Property Values?

Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 416-450

  Billings, Stephen ^a   Thibodeau, Thomas G ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Border matched repeat sales; Capitalization; Government structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955624784     PISSN: 08955638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11146-009-9205-z     Document Type: Article

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