<Para ID="Par1">There is a broad discussion in the literature concerning various aspects of art as an investment, where the return on art assets has been of special interest, but so far there is little achievement in the analysis of the performance of art markets in various countries of the European Union. The...</para>

We analyze art pricing in a unique dataset on Madrid inventories between 1600 and 1750. Hedonic regressions reveal a number of interesting facts about the taste of Baroque Spanish collectors and the imports of foreign paintings. The hedonic price index shows an impressive increase in the price...

Standard measures of consumer price inflation are based on a bundle of representative goods. It is well known that this approach might overstate inflation for new products and products with fast increasing quality. For this reason, hedonic adjustment methods have been proposed and introduced in...

In the academic debate there is a broad consensus that house price fluctuations have a substantial impact on financial stability and real economic activity. Therefore, it is important to have timely information on actual and expected house price developments. The aim of this paper is to measure...

Do indexes of house prices behave differently depending on the estimation method? If so, to what extent? To address these questions, we use a unique dataset that we compiled from individual listings in a widely circulated real estate advertisementmagazine. The dataset contains more than 470,000...

We create a hedonic price model for house prices for six geographical submarkets in the Netherlands. Our model is based on a recent data mining technique called boosting. Boosting is an ensemble technique that combines multiple models, in our case decision trees, into a combined prediction....

This paper studies the effects of quality changes on Japan's CPI by estimating a quality adjusted price index (hedonic price index) for discounted personal computers during 1990-94. According to the result, quality adjusted prices for personal computers in Japan have declined at an annual rate...