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 …

rates and the homeownership-income inequality among young households in Finland, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US, and … highest and most equally distributed homeownership in this country as well. The mortgage market in Germany is on the other …This paper uses the newly constructed Luxembourg Wealth Study data to document cross-country variation in homeownership …

differences between the Anglo-Saxon countries and Germany in terms of prevalence and extent of IR as well as in terms of the …