with earlier findings, residential real estate transactions in Germany cluster at round-number prices, but there are also … interesting (presumably cultural) differences. We extend our analysis to the commercial real estate market, where stakes are even … higher and market participants arguably more experienced. For the same type of object, professionals cluster significantly …

creation of comparable neighborhood-level qualified rent indices (Mietspiegel) across Germany. …

capital firm examines the difficulties of creating a venture capital market in a bank-based financial system. The analysis …), arguing that the existence of an active stock market is a necessary, but by no means sufficient condition for the development …

The renewed momentum in the German housing market has led to concerns that Germany is vulnerable to asset price shocks … speculative bubbles in Germany over the sample period 1987Q3 - 2012Q4. Overall, we find that actual house prices are not … Germany. …

are predominantly found in growing housing market regions. Our results can be rationalized by a theoretical model that …

-family houses in Germany are owner-occupied, apartments are usually held by private and incorporated investors. For this reason, we … separately for these two market segments. Our findings suggest that increasing the RETT by 1% is associated with a decline in … of -1. The results for this specific market segment indicate that the government operates near the top of a Laffer curve. …

wealth equivalents and anticipating the Greek participation, Germany will lose 30 billion (or 59 billion deutschmarks) and …

At the turn of the millennium three frequently cited potential causes of new challenges for wage p olicy in Germany are … opinion does not represent the major threat for wage policy, it is the Single Market which requires wage policy to be on the …