This policy brief reexamines the effects of the Greek austerity experiment on its economy via a counterfactual analysis … consolidation measures that have been implemented in Greece between 2010 and 2014. We estimate that austerity explains almost the … entire collapse of Greek GDP after 2009. This result suggests that-ceteris paribus-, in the absence of austerity, the Greek …

result of the austerity measures introduced as required to receive bailout funding. As a consequence, the health and …

has for the affordability of housing. We highlight that in recent years, transactions of residential land have decreased …-family housing has become more expensive than average. Finally, the article discusses how the scarcity of residential land can be …

Against the backdrop of sharply rising land and housing prices in attractive German cities, intensive debates have been …

translated into improved housing quality. Overall, we find that all sample households have improved their housing status over … time, and that both the immigrant and native-born German households gain additional housing space when they move. At the …