Trends, cycles and convergence in U.S. regional house prices

Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 264-283

  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

Convergence; Regional house prices; Structural time series models; Trends and cycles; Unobserved components

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859628692     PISSN: 08955638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11146-009-9183-1     Document Type: Article

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