Are housing prices improving GDP or vice versa? A cross-regional study of China

Applied Economics

Volumn 50, Issue 29, 2018, Pages 3171-3184

  Chi Wei, Su ^a   Yin, Xiao Cui ^a,b   Tao, Ran ^c   Zhou, Haigang ^d,e  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b QINGDAO AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Qingdao Entry Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau   (China)

^d CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Bootstrap panel causality test; GDP; HPs

Indexed keywords

EID: 85039556296     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2017.1418078     Document Type: Article

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