Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/62700 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
SFB 373 Discussion Paper No. 2001,58
Publisher: 
Humboldt University of Berlin, Interdisciplinary Research Project 373: Quantification and Simulation of Economic Processes, Berlin
Abstract: 
How risky are investments in residential real estate? To answer this question, information is needed about the behavior of house prices. The hedonic methodology has become a standard approach for modelling the prices of heterogeneous assets. Although intuitively appealing, it is often criticized that this approach has no sound theoretical background. We have developed a model that partly circumvents this criticism. Based on an approximation for the present value, our model delivers a state space form for the determination of house prices. Thus, we can incorporate in an economically meaningful way other economic variables like the inflation rate, mortgage rates and returns of other assets. Under some restrictive conditions, our model reduces to the standard hedonic approach. We use the EM algorithm with a final scoring step to estimate our model with monthly data of single-family house sales from the four South-West districts of Berlin for the years 1982:7 to 1999:12.
Subjects: 
Present value
Hedonics
Kalman Filter
EM Algorithm
Model Selection
Cross-Validation Criterion
JEL: 
C32
C43
G12
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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