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WP21

The Global Evidence on Housing Price Determinants: A Meta-Analysis of Hedonic Pricing Models, 1970–2026

Simon-Pierre Boucher · UQO Working Papers · October 2026 · v1.0

This paper synthesises the global hedonic housing literature from 1970 to 2026 with a reproducible pipeline: 103,011 records identified from Semantic Scholar, Crossref, arXiv and OpenAlex, 56,727 unique records screened by rules and by independent agents under a PRISMA-style protocol, 2,249 hedonic studies included at…

WP04

Hedonic Pricing of Short-Term Rental Properties: A Multi-Method Analysis of Airbnb Listing Prices in Quebec

Simon-Pierre Boucher · UQO Working Papers · October 2026 · v1.1

This paper estimates hedonic price functions for a province-wide cross-section of Airbnb listings in Quebec, Canada, from a scrape of 5,000 listing cards collected in early 2026 (3,456 with a displayed price). The displayed price field is bimodal: about 28% of priced listings, mostly small Montreal rental units, show…

WP01

Heterogeneous Amenity Capitalization in the Quebec Residential Market: A Spatial Quantile Regression Approach

Simon-Pierre Boucher · UQO Working Papers · October 2026 · v1.1

Hedonic regressions estimated at the conditional mean impose a single implicit price for each housing attribute across the price distribution. This paper asks whether the capitalisation of neighbourhood amenities into Quebec residential asking prices varies along the conditional price distribution, and whether it…