01697cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF011862 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781475503548 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Silver, Mick. Why House Price Indexes Differ : Measurement and Analysis / Mick Silver. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2012. 1 online resource (38 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students A key element in the build-up to the global recession and subsequently was the movement in house price indexes (HPIs). These indexes are particularly prone to methodological and coverage differences which can undermine both within-country and cross-country economic analysis. The paper outlines key measurement issues and reports on empirical work using an international panel data set that (i) considers whether differences in HPI measurement matter and, if so, in what way, and (ii) revisits the measurement of global house price inflation and the modeling of the determinants of house price inflation using HPIs corrected for differences in measurement practice. Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2012/125 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2012/125/001.2012.issue-125-en.xml IMF e-Library