Household formation analysis is both a multidimensional economical and statistical problem of great complexity. Since most of the literature tries to incorporate multiple economic aspects, there is, considering the extraordinary practical relevance of the problem, a remarkable gap between theory...

This article presents a categorical model of fertility based on the statistical theory of the Generalised Linear Model (GLM). Focussing on the individual probability of giving birth to a child, we derive distributions which can be embedded in a GLM framework. A major advance of that methodology...

Analysing the housing market from a macroeconomic viewpoint bears the problem of dealing with a highly segmented market. Particularly in Germany, the alternatives buying vs. renting housing space need to be considered at least partly as competing possibilities. Further, a differentiation needs...