The literature on hedonic price indices, such as the adjacent art price index, often uses a logarithmic transformation of the price data to deal with the non-normality. However, this creates the problem of retransforming the predictions back to an economically meaningful scale. This paper...

In the art market there is evidence that arbitrage does not necessarily equalize prices of comparable objects across different cities of sale. The aim of this study is to analyze why the distribution of prices differs between New York (NY) and the Rest of World (RoW). Two questions are...