The FDZ Ruhr at RWI provides price indices for apartments and houses (rentals and sales) in Germany starting in 2008. The price indices are based on the real estate dataset RWI-GEO-RED, which combines real estate listings from ImmoScout24. We perform three types of hedonic regressions to allow...

Changing product quality poses a challenge for the computation of price indexes, in particular in technologically advanced industries. We assess the differences between traditional and quality-corrected indexes by computing hedonic and matched-model price indexes for personal computer database...