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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"Housing Price"”.
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Housing price dynamics and household mobility decisions
… chapter attempts to shed light on the role of housing price dynamics in mobility decisions, asking whether households respond to prices in a forward- or backward-looking manner, and the extent to which high leverage constrains moving behavior. On a broader level, the study tests whether price …
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Bayesian Modeling of a High Resolution Housing Price Index
Understanding how housing values evolve over time is important to consumers, real estate professionals, and policy makers. Existing methods for constructing housing indices are computed at a coarse spatial granularity, such as metropolitan regions. This coarse granularity does not have the …
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Econometric analysis of the relationship between accessibility and housing price
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1998.
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The Spatiality of Housing Price Risk and Return in The Greater Toronto Area
… study addresses these deficiencies by examining housing returns in the Greater Toronto Area at varying spatial scales with rigours spatial regression techniques. Spatially Autoregressive Lag, Error, and Durbin models are estimated at the Toronto Real Estate Board and Enumeration Area spatial …
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A Nonparametric Bounds Approach for Hedonic Housing Price Indexes With an Application to the Southern California Market 1996 to 2008
… a nonparametric bounds approach for hedonic housing price models partially identified due to sample selection of an unknown form. To construct bounds for the identification region, I use a nonparametric hedonic housing price model that allows spatial correlation and propose estimators of …
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Three essays about housing issues in new contexts: demand for housing attributes, housing price indices, and location choices under displacement
… effort to understand the different dimensions of housing and its effects on human life. The concern of housing as an important keystone of social life dates back to the very initial stages of the Neolithic revolution where nomads turned into sedentary tribes because they understood the importance …
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THE URBAN HOUSING MARKET IN A TRANSITIONAL ECONOMY: SHANGHAI AS A CASE STUDY
The urban housing market has been an important research topic for urban geographers and urban economists. After 1990 when former communist regimes were transformed from planned to market-oriented economies and globalization accelerated, the urban housing markets of the transitional nations …
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Essays on the Use of Duality, Robust Empirical Methods, Panel Treatments, and Model Averaging with Applications to Housing Price Index Construction and World Productivity Growth
… by both the production technology and market prices. Chapter 2 utilizes the duality between the production maximization problem and cost minimization problem to uncover the shadow prices of inputs, and constructs corresponding price indexes for further analysis. This chapter is motivated by …
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"""Everything around me has skyrocketed"": Using qualitative GIS to understand middle-income renters’ perceptions of housing price, neighborhood change, and (im)mobility in New York City"
Housing affordability, defined as a financially feasible portion of income spent on housing, is a problem in U.S. cities, including New York City. While housing costs have increased, most Americans' salaries are not increasing at the same rate. This dissertation focuses on middle-income renters in …
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The Simultaneous Spatial Autoregressive Model and Its Application in the Housing and Pharmaceutical Markets
… application of the model, I investigate the price competition between two major pharmaceutical chains in the state of New York in a second paper. The prices of standardized prescription drugs vary considerably, both within each chain and across the two chains. This market is a good fit for …
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Short-run impacts of a value added tax on forest products
… pine sawtimber stumpage and new single-facility housing sector are empirically derived. These functions are used to determine the short-run housing price elasticities of the quantity of houses sold and the price and quantity of stumpage sold. From this, the impact of a VAT-induced housing price …
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REITs for residential rental markets in China
… In its real estate markets, excessive housing demands exist in big cities while a large amount of stock assets are underutilized. In its financial markets, households accumulate wealth but do not have adequate investment channels. Together with expansionary credit policies, these …
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The roles of international trade and immigration on U.S. local labor and housing market differentiation
… trade and immigration on local labor and housing markets. Housing not only relates to individual welfare, but also affects the performances of local industries, such as construction, real estate, and mortgage financial service industries. Therefore, understanding the effects of …
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A price prediction method In real estate market
Current housing price prediction usually employs hedonic or repeat-sales models. The objective is to build a statistical model which is more focused on statistic methods. Neither ordinary nor regularized regression model haven been applied to the field of real estate, even though they are rather …
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Determinants of the spatial dynamics of housing prices in Chengdu, China, 2005-2010
Housing unit prices differ among 75 street blocks per time period in Chengdu, China. Housing unit price's appreciation also moves differently in the 75 street blocks between 2005 and 2010. With solid transaction data acquired from Chengdu Housing Administration Department, two regression models, …
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Modeling Conditional Heteroskedasticity in Time Series and Spatial Analysis
… model, I apply our theoretical result to Boston housing price data and show the importance of modeling the conditional second moment in spatial context.
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The role of agglomeration and dispersion forces on the spatial distribution of economic activity in Chile: an empirical analysis of spatial wage distribution and regional housing prices
… such as the congestion cost associated with the housing prices”. The Chapter 2 is the first approach to estimate the role of the second nature on the regional wages through the estimation of two NEG models. This chapter suggests the important role of the second nature, but the evidence is weak. …
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The Importance Of Housing Variables In Predicting Economic Fluctuations
<p>This paper investigates the importance of housing variables in predicting the six recent recessions using factor analysis model. It shows that housing variables have great predictive power in forecasting the downturn of the economy, but little predictive power when the economy is steady or is …
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Three essays on housing economics
… that investigate the spatial behavior of housing price and its volatility and one chapter that focuses on a more fundamental housing issue. The first chapter examines the spatial variation of housing price volatility. I develop a flexible spatial volatility model for squared returns using …
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