This study provides evidence of the causal impact of immigration on German house prices, flat prices, and flat rents using an extensive dataset covering 382 administrative districts over the period 2004-2020. Employing a panel-data approach and a manually constructed shift-share instrument, we...

This paper provides an analysis of the convergence pattern of German housing prices and rents employing a new dataset that covers all the country's administrative districts. In addition to conventional tests for 𝛽-convergence and 𝜎-convergence, we apply Phillips and Sul's (2007) approach...