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A new approach for the estimation of bid-rent functions for residential location choice is proposed. The method is based on the bid-auction approach and considers that the expected maximum bid of the auction is a latent variable that can be related to observed price indicators through a measurement equation. The method has the advantage of allowing for the estimation of the parameters of the bid function that explain the heterogeneous preferences of households for location while simultaneously adjusting the expected maximum bid to reproduce realistic values. The model is applied and validated for a case study on the city of Brussels. Results show that the proposed model outperforms other methods for bid-rent estimation, both in terms of real estate prices and spatial distribution of agents, especially when detailed data describing the real estate goods and their prices is not available.
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Research in this article has been funded by the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme and the Complex Engineering Systems Institute (ICM: P-05-004-F, CONICYT: FBO16). The authors would like to thank the SustainCity team ( www.sustaincity.org) for their contribution with data collection and processing.
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Hurtubia, R., Bierlaire, M. Estimation of Bid Functions for Location Choice and Price Modeling with a Latent Variable Approach. Netw Spat Econ 14, 47–65 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11067-013-9200-z
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