Housing Market Fluctuations and the Implicit Price of Water Quality: Empirical Evidence from a South Florida Housing Market

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 319-341

  Bin, Okmyung ^a   Czajkowski, Jeffrey ^b   Li, Jingyuan ^c   Villarini, Gabriele ^d  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c IM Systems Group   (United States)

^d IA United States   (United States)

Author keywords

Hedonic price; Housing market fluctuations; Segmented regression; Spatial fixed effects; Water quality

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COSTS; HOUSING; SALES; WATER QUALITY;

FIXED EFFECT MODELS; FIXED EFFECTS; HEDONIC PRICES; HOUSING MARKETS; MARKET SEGMENTATION; SEGMENTED REGRESSIONS; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; WATER QUALITY IMPROVEMENTS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ECONOMETRICS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HEDONIC ANALYSIS; HETEROGENEITY; HOUSING MARKET; MARKET CONDITIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEGMENTATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; MARTIN COUNTY [FLORIDA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84964355218     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: 15731502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-016-0020-8     Document Type: Article

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