The role of the housing market in the everyday life of society is difficult to overestimate. The housing rents and prices directly affect standard of living of virtually every person. Housing loans constitute the largest liability of households and account for a large proportion of bank lending....

We suggest an alternative indicator based on the car sales price placed on the Internet for measuring economic inequality among regions. The regional data on car prices in Germany were downloaded from two specialised websites http://www.mobile.de and http://www.autoscout24.de in December 2011....

In the light of the unconventional monetary policies conducted by the majority of large central banks around the world, there is an intense debate about their potential impact on the prices of capital assets. Particularly in Germany, skepticism about the sustainability of the recent policy by...

New archival evidence on housing rents in Berlin over 1909-1917 is presented. The data are extracted from newspaper announcements and georeferenced. Using hedonic regressions quality-adjusted rent indices are constructed and employed to analyze the rental dynamics during World War I, when...

We use a neoclassical production function to analyze the effects of knowledge spillovers via entrepreneurship on economic performance of 337 German districts. To take the spatial dependence structure of the data into account, we estimate a spatial Durbin model. We highlight the importance of the...

The German economy continues to stagnate. After it appeared to finally be growing at the start of 2024, it experienced a slight setback in the second quarter. Although incomes are rising and inflation is now near the two-percent target, people in Germany are saving their money. As investments...

Die Wohnsituation der Bevölkerung in Deutschland, insbesondere in Gegenden mit angespanntem Wohnungsmarkt, ist ein vieldiskutiertes Thema in der Öffentlichkeit. Vor allem in Großstädten wird die Wohnsituation vermehrt als problembelastet wahrgenommen. In den Medien wird häufig von...

Die aktuell angespannte Lage auf dem Wohnungsmarkt hat zu weitreichenden Diskussionen und Forderungen nach regulierenden Eingriffen geführt. Tatsächlich sind die Angebotsmieten vor allem in Großstädten gestiegen: Während sie von 2010 bis 2022 im Durchschnitt um rund 55 Prozent geklettert...