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Bias in Appraisal‐Based Returns
Author(s) -
Geltner David
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
real estate economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.064
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1540-6229
pISSN - 1080-8620
DOI - 10.1111/1540-6229.00495
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , sign (mathematics) , econometrics , economics , rate of return , actuarial science , financial economics , mathematics , finance , mathematical analysis , geometry
This note quantifies and extends Giliberto's [AREUEA Journal 16(1)] analysis of bias in appraisal‐based returns. An important clarification and distinction is made, defining two different perspectives from which one may view appraisal return bias. The Giliberto analysis addressed bias in the holding period return only. Here, after reviewing and extending Giliberto's analysis in this regard, bias is considered from another perspective, that of the arithmetic mean of a time‐series of appraisal‐based returns. The two types of bias are likely to be of opposite sign, thereby possibly offsetting one another, so that we may often observe very little bias in the means of empirical appraisal‐based returns time‐series.