Real-Time Warning Signs of Emerging and Collapsing Chinese House Price Bubbles

National Institute Economic Review

Volumn 223, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Chen, Xi ^a   Funke, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

C15; China; G01; G12; House prices; R31; recursive unit root tests; speculative bubbles

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873436367     PISSN: 00279501     EISSN: 17413036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002795011322300105     Document Type: Article

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