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While analysts have devoted much attention to housing market performance at the national, state, and even local level, far less attention has been paid to housing markets at the regional level. We investigate how regional vacancies, population, net migration, and other demographic variables have...

Secrets of Economics Editors, Edited by Michael Szenberg and Lall Ramrattan, Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2014, 408 pages.

Related links: http://www.richmondfed.org/publications/research/region_focus/2011/q1/federal_reserve_weblinks.cfm