We formulate and estimate a new equilibrium model of metropolitan housing markets with housing differentiated by quality. Quality is a latent variable that captures all features of a dwelling and its environment. We estimate the model for Chicago and New York, obtaining hedonic housing price...

This paper estimates the demand for housing attributes of households located in the Greater Zurich area. A revealed-preferences approach is used, in which a structural hedonic model is identified and estimated. This approach explicitly accounts for the heterogeneity of preferences and for...

This paper provides estimates of the net depreciation rate for rental housing using a unique confidential data set from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that covers over 30,000 rental units from 1998 to 2009. Our data and econometric approach allow us to add to the literature in three main ways....

This paper develops a flexible discrete-choice demand framework for aggregate data sets that extends Berry, Levinsohn, and Pakes (1995) and the Pure Characteristics Demand Model of Berry and Pakes (2007). I provide a simple, computationally tractable, asymptotically normal estimator based on two...

Theil (1968) proposed a transformation of regression residuals so that they are best (minimizes the trace of its covariance matrix), linear, unbiased and subject to the constraint that its covariance matrix is scalar (BLUS) in the sense that it is proportional to the identity matrix. Despite...

In this paper we show that the answer to the question in the title is affirmative, i.e. seasonal adjustment increases the probabilities in a Markov switching regime model of staying in the same regime. This phenomenon is illustrated through Monte Carlo Simulations and with two examples...