The Time-Series Properties of House Prices: A Case Study of the Southern California Market

Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 339-361

  Gupta, Rangan ^a   Miller, Stephen M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cointegration; Forecasting; House prices; Temporal causality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858286970     PISSN: 08955638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11146-010-9234-7     Document Type: Article

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