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...

This paper addresses questions critical to Congressional action to restructure U.S. residential finance. First, which policy factors make sustainable home ownership still less viable for lower and moderate-income Americans, as well as for younger households contemplating their first house? Then,...

We introduce a new measure of housing affordability that adjusts for normative variation in housing consumption. The new measure is computed using extensive micro-data from Israel for the 1998–2015 period. Findings suggest sharp declines in Israel quality- and consumption-adjusted...

Die aktuelle Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise wird mit unterschiedlichen Erklärungsmustern unterlegt. Die vorherrschende Meinung ist, dass sowohl die Märkte als auch der Staat in Hinblick auf Finanzmarkttransaktionen versagt hätten. Jan Priewe sieht demgegenüber in den globalen wirtschaftlichen...