Kaas, Leo; Kocharkov, Georgi; Preugschat, Edgar; … - 2017
payments by owner-occupiers. We build a lifecycle model with uninsurable income risk and endogenous homeownership in order to …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 …