Home equity insurance

Purpose – This paper aims to study to what extent an insurance based on a house price index provides equity protection for homeowners. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses a novel dataset of all housing market transactions in the metropolitan area of Melbourne 1990-2006, to construct repeate...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wood, Gavin, Sommervoll, D.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/32767