For a long time, it was assumed that hard location factors (e.g. workforce, land) were the primary influence on the location decisions of firms. In the course of the tertiarization of the economy and linked increases in the qualification of employees as well as changes in values and timemodels,...

This dissertation consists of three self-contained chapters on topics in urban economics. They complement each other by taking three different angles on what drives the decisions on where to live, and in chapter 2 and 3 also where to work.

This thesis consists of three independent chapters which all revolve around the investment decisions of households on the housing market. Although the chapters vary in method and subject, they all emphasize the distributional consequences of a policy or business cycle uctuation.