Much of the property damage from wildfires occurs when fires spread into built up areas, the wildland urban interface. Fire spread within such areas occurs from house to house, as embers from one burning structure ignite neighboring ones. Actions can be taken to mitigate the chances that a given...

This paper introduces new real estate price indices for 18 major German cities and their neighborhoods (Stadtbezirke) as well as a new composite indicator for the German housing market - the German Real Estate Index (GREIX). The series are constructed on the basis of long-run transaction level...