The homeownership rate in Germany is one of the lowest among advanced economies. To better understand this fact, we … evaluate the role of specific housing policies which tend to discourage homeownership. In comparison to other countries with … higher homeownership such as the United States, Germany has an extensive social housing sector with broad eligibility …

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 … payments by owner-occupiers. We build a lifecycle model with uninsurable income risk and endogenous homeownership in order to …

homeownership. In this paper we use property-level data to estimate the effect of government mortgage guarantees on homeownership … government guarantees, but find no robust effect on homeownership. This finding suggests that government guarantees could be … considerably reduced with modest effects on homeownership, which is relevant for housing finance reform plans that propose to …

I show that conventional estimators based on the consumption Euler equation, extensively used in studies of … intertemporal consumption behavior, produce inconsistent estimates of the effect of children on consumption if potentially binding … children on consumption using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) for the US and high quality Danish administrative …