Housing Prices and Multiple Employment Nodes: Is the Relationship Nonmonotonic?

Housing Studies

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1182-1208

  Osland, Liv ^a   Pryce, Gwilym ^b  

^a WESTERN NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

employment access; externalities; gravity models; House prices; monotonic relationships; rent gradients

Indexed keywords

ECONOMETRICS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EMPLOYMENT; HOUSING MARKET; HOUSING POLICY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANNING SYSTEM; PRICE DYNAMICS;

GLASGOW [SCOTLAND]; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84869156436     PISSN: 02673037     EISSN: 14661810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.728571     Document Type: Article

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