Housing and consumer markets in Urban China

Construction Management and Economics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 117-131

  Hui, Eddie Chi Man ^a   Lo, Tony K K ^a   Chen, Jia ^a   Wang, Ziyou ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Housing turnover income ratio; renormalized partial directed coherence; retail consumer price

Indexed keywords

CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS; CONSUMER MARKET; DRIVING FORCES; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; HOUSING MARKETS; HOUSING SECTORS; PARTIAL DIRECTED COHERENCE; POLICY MAKING; REAL ESTATE; REFERENCE POINTS; RENORMALIZED PARTIAL DIRECTED COHERENCE; RETAIL CONSUMERS; RETAIL PRICE; URBAN AREAS; URBAN CHINAS;

COMMERCE; COSTS; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; SALES;

HOUSING;

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HOUSING MANAGEMENT; POLICY MAKING; PRICE DYNAMICS; PROPERTY MARKET;

CHINA;

EID: 84863294548     PISSN: 01446193     EISSN: 1466433X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2011.654130     Document Type: Article

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