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An Evaluation of the Methods Used by European Countries to Compute their Official House Price Indices
- Source :
- 25th Annual European Real Estate Society Conference.
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- European Real Estate Society, 2018.
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Abstract
- Since 2012, Eurostat requires the national statistical institutes (NSIs) in all European Union (EU) countries to compute official House Price Indices (HPIs) at a quarterly frequency. Eurostat recommends computing the HPI using a hedonic method. Most NSIs have followed this advice, although they differ in their choice of method. Some NSIs use stratified medians instead of hedonic methods. We evaluate the theoretical and empirical properties of both hedonic and stratified median methods. Of particular concern is the comparability of the HPIs across countries when computed using different methods. Our empirical comparisons use detailed micro-level data sets for Sydney and Tokyo, containing about 867,000 actual housing transactions. All the hedonic methods perform better than stratified medians. The hedonic methods generate quite similar results, except when applied to new dwellings in Tokyo. This finding shows that the choice of hedonic method can be important for smaller countries with less data. Also, the widely used hedonic repricing method becomes unreliable when the reference shadow prices are not updated frequently.<br />Hill Robert J., Scholz Michael, Shimizu Chihiro, Steurer Miriam. An evaluation of the methods used by European countries to compute their official house price indices. In: Economie et Statistique / Economics and Statistics, n°500-502, 2018. Housing and housing markets. pp. 221-238.
- Subjects :
- Statistics and Probability
Economics and Econometrics
Median
Sociology and Political Science
Shadow price
05 social sciences
Comparability
0211 other engineering and technologies
House price index
02 engineering and technology
JEL Classification C43 - E31 - R31
hedonic imputation
average characteristics
repricing
price index
housing market
rolling time dummy
House price
Price index
0502 economics and business
Economics
Econometrics
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050207 economics
European union
021101 geological & geomatics engineering
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- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- 25th Annual European Real Estate Society Conference
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....49112af6131b1a6f1acc803a1fde1ade