Hedonic models and multiple regression analysis: an empirical strategy for estimating the marginal and implicit prices of the housing characteristics

Journal title RIVISTA DI ECONOMIA E STATISTICA DEL TERRITORIO
Author/s Mauro Iacobini, Gaetano Lisi
Publishing Year 2016 Issue 2016/2
Language Italian Pages 38 P. 5-42 File size 361 KB
DOI 10.3280/REST2016-002001
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This paper aims to provide an empirical strategy for estimating the marginal and implicit prices of the housing characteristics. Although the validity of economic theory for housing - first developed by Lancaster (1966) and Rosen (1974) - is unanimously recognised, its empirical application is anything but simple. Indeed, the transition from the theoretic models to the empirical specifications requires of addressing several important issues, viz.: finding the most appropriate hedonic price function; selecting the most influential housing characteristics, as well as the most suitable transformation for the ordered qualitative variables; verifying the economic and statistic correctness of the results, and, eventually, comparing the alternative and correct models. This paper addresses all of these issues in a case study related to the Italian housing market.

Keywords: Multiple regression analysis, hedonic models, hedonic price function, hedonic price, implicit prices, marginal prices

Jel codes: C1, C13, R21, R31.

Mauro Iacobini, Gaetano Lisi, Prezzi edonici delle caratteristiche abitative e analisi di regressione multipla: suggerimenti pratici per la stima in "RIVISTA DI ECONOMIA E STATISTICA DEL TERRITORIO" 2/2016, pp 5-42, DOI: 10.3280/REST2016-002001