Definition of housing submarkets is important at both conceptual and empirical levels. In the housing studies literature, submarkets have been defined according to three different criteria: i) similarity in hedonic housing characters, ii) similarity in hedonic prices; iii) substitutability of...

While Robert and Rousseau (2010) addressed the foundational aspects of Bayesian analysis, the current chapter details its practical aspects through a review of the computational methods available for approximating Bayesian procedures. Recent innovations like Monte Carlo Markov chain, sequential...