Incentivizing Green Single-Family Construction: Identifying Effective Government Policies and Their Features

Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 383-407

  Bond, Shaun A ^a   Devine, Avis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Energy efficiency; Policy; Residential; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938785168     PISSN: 08955638     EISSN: 1573045X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11146-015-9525-0     Document Type: Article

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