The impact of wind farms on property values: A locally weighted hedonic pricing model

Papers in Regional Science

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 423-444

  Sunak, Yasin ^a   Madlener, Reinhard ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

hedonic pricing; locally weighted regression; spatial fixed effects; Wind power

Indexed keywords

MODELING; PRICE DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WIND FARM; WIND POWER;

GERMANY;

EID: 84951839995     PISSN: 10568190     EISSN: 14355957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12197     Document Type: Article

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