In this empirical paper we analyze the link between homeownership across cohorts and the net wealth distribution. In … over cohorts on the distribution of net wealth we impose the homeownership pattern of the US on Germany and ask: What would …

The homeownership rate in Germany is one of the lowest among advanced economies. To better understand this fact, we … analyze the role of three specific policies which discourage homeownership in Germany: an extensive social housing sector with … payments by owner-occupiers. We build a lifecycle model with uninsurable income risk and endogenous homeownership in order to …

cultural divides, this paper introduces the idea of housing cleavages, i.e., homeownership versus tenancy and high-price versus … homeownership rate and conservative house price development, Germany represents a least-likely case for housing to be of importance …, and homeownership are positively associated with voting for center-right parties and voter turnout, while social tenancy …

A wide range of aggregate data is used to examine the spatial variation in homeownership rates among a cross-section of … spatial dependence in homeownership levels. In addition to familiar demographic and socioeconomic variables, the regional … disparities in homeownership rates between eastern and western Germany as well as between rural, urbanized and agglomerated …

This paper uses the newly constructed Luxembourg Wealth Study data to document cross-country variation in homeownership … rates and the homeownership-income inequality among young households in Finland, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US, and … relate it to cross-country differences in mortgage market maturity. We find that aside from Italy, homeownership rates and …

cultural divides, this paper introduces the idea of housing cleavages, i.e., homeownership versus tenancy and high-price versus … homeownership rate and conservative house price development, Germany represents a least-likely case for housing to be of importance …, and homeownership are positively associated with voting for center-right parties and voter turnout, while social tenancy …