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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…

WP03

Hedonic Housing Price Models for the United States: A Multi-Method Comparison of Parametric, Quantile, and Machine Learning Approaches

Simon-Pierre Boucher · UQO Working Papers · October 2026 · v1.2

This paper compares econometric and machine-learning approaches to hedonic housing valuation on 788,842 active Zillow listings covering all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, and asks how much of the machine-learning advantage survives when models must price homes in markets they have not seen. A semi-log…

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…