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The Impact of Macroeconomic Factors on Residential Property Price Indices in Europe Cover

The Impact of Macroeconomic Factors on Residential Property Price Indices in Europe

Open Access
|Jul 2013

Abstract

This paper aims to determine the influence of selected variables on residential property price indices for the European countries, with particular attention paid to Italy and Poland, using a rough set theory and an approach that uses a committee of artificial neural networks. Additionally, the overall analysis for each European country is presented.

Quarterly time series data constituted the material for testing and empirical results. The developed models show that the economic and financial situation of European countries affects residential property markets. Residential property markets are connected, despite the fact that they are situated in different parts of Europe.

The economic and financial crisis of countries has variable influence on prices of real estate. The results also suggest that methodology based on the rough set theory and a committee of artificial neural networks has the ability to learn, generalize, and converge the residential property prices index.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10031-012-0036-3 | Journal eISSN: 1898-0198 | Journal ISSN: 1730-4237
Language: English
Page range: 103 - 125
Published on: Jul 30, 2013
Published by: University of Szczecin
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

© 2013 Małgorzata Renigier-Biłozor, Radosław Wiśniewski, published by University of Szczecin
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons License.