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Rising rents in German cities have led to an intense debate about the need for tighter rent controls in housing markets. In April 2015, the so-called rental brake was introduced, which imposes upper bounds for rents in new contracts, in order to immediately slow down the increase of rents in...
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, there is an intense debate about their potential impact on the prices of capital assets. Particularly in Germany, skepticism …
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households and account for a large proportion of bank lending. In Germany, the housing accounts for more than a half of wealth of … increases have been observed in Germany. This raised doubts and fears in German society. On the one hand, it is feared that … Germany can follow the path of Spain, Ireland, and other bubble countries that ended in a severe economic crisis. On the other …
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inequality among regions. The regional data on car prices in Germany were downloaded from two specialised websites http …. The shapefile containing the geographical information on the regional borders was taken from the Eurostat. Using Germany …, and more importantly allow to estimate Gini indices at the NUTS2 level-something that has never been done for Germany …
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In this paper, we make multi-step forecasts of the annual growth rates of the real GDP for each of the 16 German Länder (states) simultaneously. Beside the usual panel data models, such as pooled and fixed-effects models, we apply panel models that explicitly account for spatial dependence...
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After a turbulent summer, marked by a weak second and a likely stronger third quarter, the German economy should return to an average pace of growth and end up with a growth rate of 0.9 percent in 2019. Despite the more subdued pace, capacity utilization remains high; employment growth is...
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political risks do not materialize. A no-deal Brexit, for example, would reduce growth in Germany by 0.4 percent in 2020. …
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The paper aims at measuring the rental housing market regulations in Germany between 1913 and 2015. Four classes of … of regulations in Germany related to the growing housing scarcity in large cities due to intra- and international …
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housing construction in Germany in 1950_2015. The regulations are measured by the indices developed by the authors based on a …
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