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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Price indices"”.
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Hedonic price indices for military vehicles and trailers
… study evaluates existing methods for developing price indices for defense products, proposes an alternative method based on hedonic analysis, and develops price indices for U.S . Army vehicles using the proposed method. Prices indices are estimated for combat vehicles, and trucks and trailers. …
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Applied econometric essays on sales taxes and computer price indices
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1994.
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Using artificial neural networks to forecast changes in national and regional price indices for the UK residential property market
… extend their applicationto time-series of house prices in order to forecast changes in the residential propertymarket at national and regional levels.Neural networks were demonstrated to be successful in producing time-seriesforecasts of changes in the housing market, particularly when combined …
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Three essays about housing issues in new contexts: demand for housing attributes, housing price indices, and location choices under displacement
… demand for housing, the estimation of housing price indices, and the revealed preferences on residential mobility and location choice. In these three essays I provide new evidence by applying well-established methods to a different spatio-cultural context, more spatial-disaggregated units, and …
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On the waterfront : a 25 year study of the relative risk & return of Florida single-family waterfront and inland homes (1977-2002)
… regression technique to estimate annual home price changes and to construct home price indices for the period 1977-2002. The resulting price indices show a higher average annual appreciation rate for waterfront homes relative to inland homes; the highest waterfront price appreciation occurred …
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Essays on urban economics special focus on New Zealand housing markets
… titled ""Salience of Hazard Disclosure and House Prices: Evidence from Christchurch, New Zealand,"" addresses the impacts of providing precise salient earthquake hazard information on property values. Taking advantage of the land liquefaction zoning, known as the Technical Category (TC) zoning, …
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Highway cost-benefit analysis system
… the cost tables as and when the latest Consumer Price Indices and Producer Price Indices are available.;The software application has been developed in Visual BasicRTM 5, which interact with the cost tables, stored in MS-Excel workbook, according to the user inputs. The software application was …
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Housing market dynamics: A non-rational approach
… The first half of the thesis explores how house prices are generally determined on a macroeconomic scale. We provide a brief overview of the methodology commonly used for the construction of several different price indices that statistical agencies rely on for various purposes. Additionally, we …
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Resort real estate : an economic analysis of second come pricing behavior in Park City, Utah
… in resort property markets. To accomplish this a price index is constructed to track real price fluctuations from 1981 to 2010 for the 3 localized ski resort markets in Park City, Utah. The resulting price indices reveal a history of cyclical price movements, and surprising long-term real price …
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Tests of purchasing power parity
… long-run relationship between exchange rates and prices in ten countries in Southwest Asia, Africa, and the Pacific Rim for the post-Bretton Woods period. It uses cointegration tests to investigate the thesis that relative purchasing power parity exists as a long-run equilibrium condition between …
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An empirical analysis of exchange rate pass-through to prices in South Africa
… of the target. Finding the duration taken by the price indices to respond to exchange rate fluctuations took a central interest to this research and also to find out the magnitude of the exchange rate fluctuations that are passed on to prices. This research did a comparative analysis from a SVAR …
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Money supply and inflation in virtual economies : creating the appropriate tools for virtual economic management in collaboration with NARC Ltd.
… useful and effective tools for the management of price levels. This formed the basis of our research question: For the purposes of developing a massively multiplayer online video game, what are the appropriate tools for measuring, managing and maintaining a digital in-game economy, in particular …
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A comparative study of condominium and single family house price appreciation in the Salt Lake Valley
… other significant housing characteristics. The price indices created by the hedonic models for each housing type are then compared within geographic areas and across the valley. The paper shows that condominium price appreciation is significantly below the appreciation of single family houses in …
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Changes in single family housing prices due to the planning and construction of Interstate 476 in Pennsylvania
… the capitalization into single-family housing prices of the construction investment for Interstate 476 (I-476), which had faced public opposition for more than two decades. While the majority of previous capitalization studies have been limited to the areas adjacent to transportation …
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Theoretically Valid Aggregates in the Absence of Homothetic Preferences, Separable Utility, and Complete Price Data
… requires the relative intra-group commodity prices to be independent of the group price index. This study compares the results of estimating a demand system for composite beef, pork, and poultry products under the assumptions of weak separability and the Generalized Composite Commodity …
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The Effect of Mountain Pine Beetle Induced Tree Mortality on Home Values in the Colorado Front Range
… sales model that allows for region specific price indices, and non-linear age-related depreciation in home values. We use the time-invariant existence of pine forest near a home to overcome shortcomings in the measurement of MPB damage. We infer from temporal changes in the marginal "effect …
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Quality, Variety, and Parity: Prices in International Trade
Prices determine allocation of resources in a market economy, yet their role in international trade theory is often underappreciated. In these three essays I provide novel empirical implementations of several theories relating to the prices of traded goods and show the implications for measuring …
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All real estate is local : causality between cross-border investment and United States commercial real estate prices
… and interacts with commercial real estate prices within the four largest metropolitan real estate markets in the United States, and on an aggregate nationwide basis. Both rigorous testing and visual analysis of historical price indices and cross-border volume revealed unidirectional …
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On modeling the volatility in speculative prices
… using the Real Effect Exchange Rate(REER) indices of three mainstream currencies in Asia (RMB, Hong Kong Dollar and Taiwan Dollar), while the multivariate volatility modeling is applied to investigate the relationship between the REER indices and stock price indices in mainland China, as …
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