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Erschienen in: The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics 4/2008

01.11.2008

Determinants of House Prices: A Quantile Regression Approach

verfasst von: Joachim Zietz, Emily Norman Zietz, G. Stacy Sirmans

Erschienen in: The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics | Ausgabe 4/2008

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Abstract

OLS regression has typically been used in housing research to determine the relationship of a particular housing characteristic with selling price. Results differ across studies, not only in terms of size of OLS coefficients and statistical significance, but sometimes in direction of effect. This study suggests that some of the observed variation in the estimated prices of housing characteristics may reflect the fact that characteristics are not priced the same across a given distribution of house prices. To examine this issue, this study uses quantile regression, with and without accounting for spatial autocorrecation, to identify the coefficients of a large set of diverse variables across different quantiles. The results show that purchasers of higher-priced homes value certain housing characteristics such as square footage and the number of bathrooms differently from buyers of lower-priced homes. Other variables such as age are also shown to vary across the distribution of house prices.

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Fußnoten
1
See Kirman (1992) for a scathing critique of the representative agent paradigm.
 
2
The articles in Durlauf and Young (2001) provide a good idea of the social dynamics that may evolve and why they may evolve.
 
3
The quantile regressions employ the “sqreg” command in Stata for seed 1001.
 
4
The Matlab program xy2cont.m of J.LeSage’s Econometrics Toolbox is employed, which is an adaptation of the Matlab program fdelw2.m of Kelley Pace’s Spatial Statistics Toolbox 2.0.
 
5
If X identifies the data matrix, then the spatial lags of the regressors are computed as WX, where W is the spatial weight matrix used for the construction of the spatial lag of the dependent variable.
 
6
The bootstrap is based on 500 replications.
 
7
The data used are similar to the data used in Zietz and Newsome (2002).
 
8
Variance inflation factors (VIF) are calculated for all variables. The maximum VIF is 2.51, the mean VIF is 1.54. This does not suggest that the regressions suffer from multicollinearity.
 
9
The p values of the OLS estimates are based on an estimate of the variance–covariance matrix that is robust to heteroskedasticity.
 
10
The variable year can be converted to measure the age of a house by simply subtracting the value of year from 2000 for a given observation. This linear transformation does not affect the coefficients of any variable other than year or age and the constant.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Determinants of House Prices: A Quantile Regression Approach
verfasst von
Joachim Zietz
Emily Norman Zietz
G. Stacy Sirmans
Publikationsdatum
01.11.2008
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics / Ausgabe 4/2008
Print ISSN: 0895-5638
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-045X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11146-007-9053-7

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