Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/19475 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper Series 1 No. 2004,08
Publisher: 
Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
In this paper, we review the German practice of imputing the costs of owner-occupied housing by increasing the relative weight of actual rents in the CPI. As the structure of owner-occupied housing differs substantially from that of rental housing, this variant of the imputation method may cause a bias in the German CPI. For assessing the appropriateness of the German imputation method, we estimate alternative rental equivalent indices based on the GSOEP. We find some evidence of an understatement of the "true" rate of price increase, which is, however, not directly related to the imputation method.
Subjects: 
Consumer Price Index
hedonics
housing
matched models
JEL: 
C43
C21
R21
E31
D12
R31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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