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. The corresponding number of unique car price observations downloaded from …

-family housing in Germany. Construction activity in local housing markets (measured by new housing permits related to the local … positively linked to higher local home price levels and recent increases in development costs, while higher levels of replacement … costs dampen construction activity. The average price elasticity of new single-family home permits is considerably less than …