Using new data on the rent control, tenant protection and housing rationing as well as homeownership rates from 25 … housing have contributed to the rise of homeownership. Originally passed as social policy to protect a considerable share of …, compete with the much more cost-intensive direct promotion of homeownership because they have made most countries …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The homeownership rate in Germany is one of the lowest among advanced economies. To better understand this fact, we … evaluate the role of specific housing policies which tend to discourage homeownership. In comparison to other countries with … higher homeownership such as the United States, Germany has an extensive social housing sector with broad eligibility …