In an urban economy, the distribution of people and real estate prices depends on the location of the central business district of a city. As distance from the city center increases, both prices and population density diminish, for travel costs increase in terms of time and money. As...

In the light of the unconventional monetary policies conducted by the majority of large central banks around the world, there is an intense debate about their potential impact on the prices of capital assets. Particularly in Germany, skepticism about the sustainability of the recent policy by...

The role of the housing market in the everyday life of society is difficult to overestimate. The housing rents and prices directly affect standard of living of virtually every person. Housing loans constitute the largest liability of households and account for a large proportion of bank lending....

We suggest an alternative indicator based on the car sales price placed on the Internet for measuring economic inequality among regions. The regional data on car prices in Germany were downloaded from two specialised websites http://www.mobile.de and http://www.autoscout24.de in December 2011....

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...

Der Immobilienmarkt in Deutschland ist, auch im Vergleich zu anderen entwickelten Volkswirtschaften, nach wie vor in einer stabilen Verfassung. Beispielsweise ist die Zinsbindung bei Immobilienkrediten im Durchschnitt recht lang, so dass eine abrupt auftretende Überschuldung vieler Haushalte...

Obwohl die Preise für Wohnimmobilien in den 127 größten deutschen Städten in den vergangenen Jahren kräftig gestiegen sind, gibt es nach wie vor keine Anzeichen für eine landesweite Immobilienpreisblase. Zwar haben sich die Preise für Eigentumswohnungen im Vergleich mit dem Jahr 2009 um...

We use a neoclassical production function to analyze the effects of knowledge spillovers via entrepreneurship on economic performance of 337 German districts. To take the spatial dependence structure of the data into account, we estimate a spatial Durbin model. We highlight the importance of the...

Spekulative Immobilienpreisentwicklungen bergen erhebliche real- und finanzwirtschaftliche Risiken und waren zuletzt verstärkt Gegenstand öffentlicher Debatten. Jüngste Erfahrungen aus anderen Ländern wie den USA oder Spanien haben gezeigt, welche negativen Konsequenzen mit dem Platzen...

In this paper, the authors construct a unique data set of Internet offer prices for flats in 48 large European cities across 24 countries. The data collected between January and May 2012 from 33 websites, are drawn from Internet advertisements of dwellings. Using the resulting sample of more...