Warning: Don’t Infer Regional Inflation Differences from House Price Changes

Charles Gascon and Andrew Spewak

Economic Synopses, 2018, issue 6, 4 pages

Abstract: If house prices in one metropolitan statistical area (MSA) are increasing much faster than in another MSA, should one infer that overall inflation is also much faster in the former?

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.20955/es.2018.6

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