The present paper quantifies the economic consequences of eliminating the system of income splitting in Germany. We …

. Evidence on employment in the retail sector from Germany, the Netherlands and the United States suggests that the regulatory …

The homeownership rate in Germany is one of the lowest among advanced economies. To better understand this fact, we … analyze the role of three specific policies which discourage homeownership in Germany: an extensive social housing sector with … payments by owner-occupiers. We build a lifecycle model with uninsurable income risk and endogenous homeownership in order to …

risks in retirement. Our life cycle model captures these links in order to explain why homeownership in Germany is so low …. Our simulation results indicate that the public long-term care as well as the pension system reduce the homeownership rate … in Germany by 10-15 percentage points. …

(Germany) in the period between 2011 and 2018. To identify the positive influence of the travel distance on approval for the … homeownership and expenditure-crowding-out hypotheses. …

disparities in homeownership rates between eastern and western Germany as well as between rural, urbanized and agglomerated …A wide range of aggregate data is used to examine the spatial variation in homeownership rates among a cross-section of … spatial dependence in homeownership levels. In addition to familiar demographic and socioeconomic variables, the regional …

and thus impose a cost to their owners. We test a simple theory of the designation process in which we postulate that the …

joint location and tenure mode decisions. To investigate the effect of homeownership on equilibrium prices and allocations … three results. First, homeownership enables more households to remain in the more desirable location at the expense of … newcomers. Second, homeownership adds to the volatility of the housing market. Third, homeownership may amplify the dispersion …

homeownership compared to Germany. The question is to what extent the observed differences in homeownership are induced by national …This paper studies the role of pensions and income taxes in determining homeownership and household wealth. It provides … a cross-country analysis, using tax and pension policy designs in Germany, the US and Australia. These developed nations …