Unit Roots and Structural Change: An Application to US House Price Indices

Urban Studies

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 757-776

  Canarella, Giorgio ^a   Miller, Stephen ^a   Pollard, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL CITY; CAPITAL MARKET; HOUSING MARKET; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; TIME SERIES;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84863393307     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098011404935     Document Type: Article

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