Determinants and sustainability of house prices: The case of Shanghai, China

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 4524-4548

  Zou, Gao Lu ^a   Chau, Kwong Wing ^b  

^a CHENGDU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Break date; Broad money; Cointegration; Engle Granger test; Exogeneity; Granger causality; Inflation; Sales; Sustainable house price; Trace test

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; HOUSING MARKET; HOUSING POLICY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRICE DYNAMICS; STABILIZATION; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

CHINA; SHANGHAI;

EID: 84929008800     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su7044524     Document Type: Article

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