Macro drivers of Australian housing affordability, 1985-2010: An autoregressive distributed lag approach

Studies in Economics and Finance

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 347-369

  Worthington, Andrew ^a   Higgs, Helen ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Affordability drivers; Housing affordability; Housing policy; Long run equilibrium affordability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884176074     PISSN: 10867376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/SEF-07-2012-0078     Document Type: Article

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