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 …

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 …

empirical work relies on a representative panel data set from Germany and individuals' self-assessment of their position in the …