Making-or picking-winners: Evidence of internal and external price effects in historic preservation policies

Real Estate Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 379-407

  Noonan, Douglas S ^a   Krupka, Douglas J ^b,c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c IZA   (Germany)

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EID: 79957467955     PISSN: 10808620     EISSN: 15406229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6229.2010.00293.x     Document Type: Article

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