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An Analysis of Office Market Rents: Parameter Constancy and Unobservable Variables

Author: John L. Glascock, Minbo Kim, and C.F. Sirmans

Start Page: 625
End Page: 638
Volume: 8
Issue Number: 4
Year: 1993
Publication: Journal of Real Estate Research

Abstract: This paper reexamines variations in office building rents using data for a six-year period in a medium-sized city. Previous literature has relied on estimates using OLS estimation of standard fixed-effects models. We test for structural shifts and parameter constancy using random effects on heteroscedastic-autoregressive models and we find that structural shifts occur. Overall, the rent adjustment process does not remain unchanged across different time periods or submarkets.

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