Increasing returns, land use controls and housing prices in China

Economic Modelling

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 789-795

  Zhang, Dingsheng ^a,b   Cheng, Wenli ^c   Ng, Yew Kwang ^d  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Housing prices in China; Increasing returns; Land use controls in China

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873940583     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2013.01.034     Document Type: Article

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