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Introduction to this Volume: Applying Hedonics in the Swiss Housing Markets

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    Andrea Baranzini, José V. Ramirez & Caroline Schaerer

  2. Research group on the economics and management of the environment (REME), Swiss Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Station 16, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Philippe Thalmann

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Baranzini, A., Ramirez, J.V., Schaerer, C. et al. Introduction to this Volume: Applying Hedonics in the Swiss Housing Markets. Swiss J Economics Statistics 144, 543–559 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03399265

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