Arithmetic Repeat Sales Price Estimators

Robert Shiller

No 971, Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers from Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University

Abstract: Repeat sales price estimators are designed to infer price indexes of infrequently sold and unstandardized assets, such as houses, based only on changes in prices of those individual assets that are observed to be sold twice. Repeat sales price estimators are proposed here that are arithmetic, and either value-weighted or equally-weighted. Moreover, variants are proposed that are interval-weighted, i.e., that correct for a form of heteroskedasticity, and that include additional regressors representing changes in hedonic variables. Some of these methods are applied to data on house prices in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas and San Francisco 1970-1986.

Keywords: Price index; hedonic regression; housing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C43 R31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 1991-02
Note: CFP 781.
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Published in Journal of Housing Economics (1991), 1: 110-126

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