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Rent indices for housing in West Germany 1985 to 1998

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Johannes Hoffmann () (Deutsche Bundesbank - Economics Department, Wilhelm-Epstein-Strasse 14, 60431 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.)
Claudia Kurz () (Deutsche Bundesbank - Economics Department, Wilhelm-Epstein-Strasse 14, 60431 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.)

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In several studies, hedonic methods have been used successfully for the ex post assessment of the accuracy of inflation measurement. Most of those studies relate to high-tech products, with respect to which traditional methods of compiling price indices often fail. We apply hedonic methods to rental housing services, which display less quality progress. However, as German households devote about 10% of their total expenditure to rented housing services, even a small bias in this field might induce a substantial distortion in overall inflation measurement. On the basis of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we perform a hedonic analysis of housing rents and compile different price indices. Overall, we conclude that there is some evidence of an understatement of rent inflation in the official rent index for West Germany at the beginning of the 1990s. JEL Classification: C21; D43; D12; E31.

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Paper provided by European Central Bank in its series Working Paper Series with number 116.

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Keywords: Consumer price index; hedonics; housing; matched models.;

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  1. Nicole Jonker, 2002. "Constructing quality-adjusted price indices: a comparison of hedonic and discrete choice models," Working Paper Series 172, European Central Bank. [Downloadable!]
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