What do property values really tell us? A hedonic study of underground storage tanks

Land Economics

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 211-226

  Guignet, Dennis ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMETRICS; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; HEDONIC ANALYSIS; HOUSING MARKET; PROPERTY MARKET; UNDERGROUND STORAGE;

EID: 84874956891     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.89.2.211     Document Type: Article

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