This paper employs panel data on 413 German counties and cities from 2004 to 2009 to investigate the supply of new single-family housing in local housing markets. New local housing supply is measured by the annual number of construction permits in relation to the existing single-family housing...

Between 1997 and 2005, the German government provided owner-occupied subsidies to fund new private housing construction and stock purchases to increase owner-occupied housing. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of these subsidies on total housing construction for the 1997-2007...