Overview
State-of-the-art and recent advances in hedonic methods illustrated through empirical applications in the housing market
Integrates environmental quality, segregation and discrimination into the valuation of land use
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Applications to Urban Environment Issues
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Applications to Segregation and Discrimination Issues
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Back Matter
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About this book
Cities are growing worldwide and their sprawl is increasingly challenged for its pressure on open spaces and environmental quality. Economic arguments can help to decide about the trade-off between preserving environmental quality and developing housing and business surfaces, provided the benefits of environmental quality are adequately quantified. To this end, this book focuses on the use and advancement of the “hedonic approach”, an economic valuation technique that analyses and quantifies the sources of rent and property price differentials. Starting from theoretical foundations, the hedonic approach is applied to the valuation of natural land use preservation and noise abatement measures, as well as to residential segregation and discrimination, extending the analysis to the role of the buyers and sellers' identity on housing market prices and to the issue of environmental justice.
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“This book provides a very useful presentation of the theory and empirics of hedonic pricing. … overall structure of the book addresses clearly the theoretical development of the hedonic price model and its empirical applications in multiple subfields. … most use to the applied urban researcher … . The authors use figures and maps to show the importance of being able to visualize one’s econometric results, especially in an area so rooted in spatial relationships as housing markets.” (Clifford A. Lipscomb, The Review of Regional Studies, Vol. 38 (1), 2008)Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hedonic Methods in Housing Markets
Book Subtitle: Pricing Environmental Amenities and Segregation
Editors: Andrea Baranzini, José Ramirez, Caroline Schaerer, Philippe Thalmann
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76815-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-76814-4Published: 28 August 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-2638-8Published: 29 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-76815-1Published: 20 September 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 278
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations
Topics: Regional/Spatial Science, Environmental Economics, Statistics for Business, Management, Economics, Finance, Insurance