This paper employs panel data on 413 counties and cities over 2004-2009 to investigate the local supply of new single-family housing in Germany. Construction activity in local housing markets (measured by new housing permits related to the local housing stock) is modeled as a function of local...

This paper investigates whether and how strongly the share of homeowners in a community affects residential property taxation by local governments. Different from renters, homeowners bear the full property tax burden irrespective of local market conditions, and the tax is more salient to them....

This paper investigates whether and how strongly the share of homeowners in a community affects residential property taxation by local governments. Different from renters, homeowners bear the full property tax burden irrespective of local market conditions, and the tax is more salient to them....

Die Steigerung der energetischen Modernisierungsrate im Wohngebäudebestand zählt zu den strategischen Zielen der Klimapolitik in Deutschland. Gemessen am Anteil von WEG-Wohnungen am Gesamtwohnungsbestand ist die Sanierungsaktivität dieser Eigentümergruppe im Vergleich zu anderen Gruppen...

Using German regional data for 1998, 2002 and 2006, this study reexamines the Oswald hypothesis, the conjecture that high levels of home ownership lead to inferior outcomes in regional labor markets. Including a set of controls for regional unemployment rates, three different econometric models...

Using German regional data for 1998, 2002 and 2006, this study reexamines the Oswald hypothesis, the conjecture that high levels of home ownership lead to inferior outcomes in regional labor markets. Including a set of controls for regional unemployment rates, three different econometric models...

Die Steigerung der energetischen Modernisierungsrate im Wohngebäudebestand zählt zu den strategischen Zielen der Klimapolitik in Deutschland. Gemessen am Anteil von WEG-Wohnungen am Gesamtwohnungsbestand ist die Sanierungsaktivität dieser Eigentümergruppe im Vergleich zu anderen Gruppen...

A wide range of aggregate data is used to examine the spatial variation in homeownership rates among a cross-section of 96 German planning regions. The analysis accounts for potential endogeneity of prices and affordability as well as for spatial dependence in homeownership levels. In addition...