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Estimación de la inflación regional de los precios de la vivienda en Chile

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  • López, Esteban

    (Universidad Católica del Norte)

  • Aroca, Patricio

    (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez)

Abstract

Inflation has been constantly studied at national level because its negative effects over the economy, however this problem has generally been ignored at regional scale, mainly because the assumption that regions have a homogeneous inflation behavior. Expanding the Paredes and Aroca (2008) methodology to the temporal dimension and using National Statistics Institute (INE) data, this paper contributes with an estimation of regional housing inflation for Chilean regions. Main results suggest that regions besides bear different cost of living (higher for extreme regions than those in the center), are also showing heterogeneous speed in their price evolution process. This result suggests that effects of housing policies (and potentially other sectors policies) are heterogeneous between regions and more inefficient than those that could be implemented when taking account of the different regional inflation pattern.// Este artículo estima que la evolución del producto real y per capita de México entre 1895 y 2008 se puede describir adecuadamente por medio de un modelo estacionario en tendencia, afectado por cuatro cambios estructurales, cuya ocurrencia coincide con cambios institucionales internos, guerras y crisis económicas y financieras. La inflación ha sido permanentemente estudiada en Chile por sus efectos negativos en la economía; sin embargo su investigación es escasa por región, porque ha primado el supuesto de que las economías regionales tienen un comportamiento homogéneo respecto a la inflación. Extendiendo la metodología de Paredes y Aroca (2008) al plano temporal y utilizando información de inflación nacional producida por el Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas, este artículo contribuye con una estimación de la inflación de los precios de las viviendas de las regiones chilenas. Los resultados sugieren que las regiones además de tener distintos costos de vida (más altos para las regiones extremas que para las del centro), muestran una evolución con velocidades diferentes. Esto sugiere que la elaboración de políticas habitacionales (y potencialmente en todos los sectores) destinadas a reducir la inflación tengan efectos heterogéneos en el territorio y sean menos eficaces de las que podrían formularse considerando las diferencias inflacionarias entre las regiones.

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  • López, Esteban & Aroca, Patricio, 2012. "Estimación de la inflación regional de los precios de la vivienda en Chile," El Trimestre Económico, Fondo de Cultura Económica, vol. 0(315), pages .601-630, julio-sep.
  • Handle: RePEc:elt:journl:v:79:y:2012:i:315:p:601-630
    DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.20430/ete.v79i315.71
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    1. Corvalan, Alejandro & Pazzona, Matteo, 2019. "Persistent commodity shocks and transitory crime effects," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 158(C), pages 110-127.
    2. Lopez, Esteban & Hewings, Geoffrey J.D., 2018. "Housing price indices for small spatial units," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 70(C), pages 57-71.
    3. Álvarez, Roberto & García-Marín, Álvaro & Ilabaca, Sebastián, 2021. "Commodity price shocks and poverty reduction in Chile," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 70(C).
    4. Juan Soto & Dusan Paredes, 2016. "Cities, Wages, And The Urban Hierarchy," Journal of Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 56(4), pages 596-614, September.
    5. Paulo Cox & Víctor Pérez, 2016. "Precios de Arriendo y Salarios en Chile," Working Papers Central Bank of Chile 781, Central Bank of Chile.

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    Keywords

    Inflación regional; índices de precios; comparación temporal y comparación espacial; regresión de precios hedónicos;
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    JEL classification:

    • R30 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location - - - General
    • R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)

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