Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/152550 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 116
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
In several studies, hedonic methods have been used successfully for the ex post assessment of the accuracy of inflation measurement. Most of those studies relate to high-tech products, with respect to which traditional methods of compiling price indices often fail. We apply hedonic methods to rental housing services, which display less quality progress. However, as German households devote about 10 % of their total expenditure to rented housing services, even a small bias in this field might induce a substantial distortion in overall inflation measurement. On the basis of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we perform a hedonic analysis of housing rents and compile different price indices. Overall, we conclude that there is some evidence of an understatement of rent inflation in the official rent index for West Germany at the beginning of the 1990s.
JEL: 
C21
C43
D12
E31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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