Estimating price indexes for different quantiles shows how prices vary for homes that are in different stages of the filtering process. The paper describes a filtering model and its implication for the dynamic interaction of housing prices at these various stages. A time-series analysis of quantile price indexes for three municipalities near Chicago supports the predictions of the filtering model.
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