Who has really paid for the reconstruction of East Germany? : expected and realized returns on real estate investments in East and West Germany in the 1990s
Dirk Kiesewetter; Tina Bensemann; Kristin Schönemann
We evaluate the profitability of investments in residential property in Germany after unification with a focus on the comparison of East and West Germany. Calculations are carried out for (1) the after-tax return an investor might have expected at the beginning of the 1990s, and (2) the after-tax return that has been realized ten years after. We compare a set of statistical data for investments in fifty major cities by using complete financial budgeting. The results show that tax subsidies could not always protect investors from losing money, but they have boosted realized returns after tax considerably. Therefore, it was indeed the taxpayers, not the investors, who have borne the cost of reconstructing East Germany.
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2009
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Authors: | Kiesewetter, Dirk ; Bensemann, Tina ; Schönemann, Kristin |
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Business research : BuR ; official open access journal of VHB, Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft e.V. - Göttingen : VHB, ISSN 1866-8658, ZDB-ID 2426376X. - Vol. 2.2009, 1, p. 11-37
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