RT Article
T1 Crime and (price) punishment in the Chilean real estate market: the case of Santiago
JF Crime, law and social change
VO 76
IS 5
SP 497
OP 523
A1 Andrade, Nathaly
A2 Cifuentes, Arturo
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1826469095
AB We investigate the relationship between crime and property prices in the Santiago (Chile) real estate market. The study considers two property types (single-family homes and apartments), and twelve different types of crimes. The study shows the importance of relying on a two-stage least square approach (2SLS) based on instrumental variables (IV) to address the endogeneity-of-crime problem. It also shows the benefits of incorporating factor analysis to explore the price-crime dynamics. We find that in general crime has a negative effect on property prices, but the size of this effect varies considerably depending on the type of crime. The study also finds that apartments respond almost immediately to changes in crime rates while single-family homes take longer to respond. Finally, ranking different crimes based on their (price/crime) elasticities yield almost identical sequences regardless of the type of property or time-lag employed.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 521-523
K1 Wohnung
K1 Eigentum
K1 Kriminalität
K1 Zusammenhang
K1 Chile
DO 10.1007/s10611-021-09939-0