The FDZ Ruhr provides a dataset on real estate advertisements in Germany from 2007 onwards. The data are based on information from the internet platform ImmobilienScout24 and covers both apartments and houses for sale and for rent. The data are available for scientific research only. The...

The FDZ Ruhr provides two campus files on real estate advertisements in Germany: the Panel Campus File (RWI-GEO-RED Panel) and a Cross-Sectional Campus File (RWI-GEO-RED Cross-Section). The datasets are extractions of the Scientific Use Files of RWI-GEO-RED. The Panel File covers the 15 largest...

The FDZ Ruhr at RWI provides price indices for apartments and houses (rentals and sales) in Germany starting in 2008. The price indices are based on the real estate dataset RWI-GEO-RED, which combines real estate listings from ImmoScout24. We perform three types of hedonic regressions to allow...

The FDZ Ruhr provides a dataset on real estate advertisements in Germany from 2007 onwards. The data are based on information from the internet platform ImmobilienScout24 and covers both apartments and houses for sale and for rent. The data are available for scientific research only. The...

The FDZ Ruhr at RWI provides price indices for apartments and houses (rentals and sales) in Germany starting in 2008. The price indices are based on the real estate dataset RWI-GEO-RED, which combines real estate listings from ImmoScout24. We perform three types of hedonic regressions to allow...

In 2017, the German federal government passed the Railroad Noise Protection Act to reduce the noise emitted by freight trains. This paper evaluates the effects of this law on house prices by using regional variation comparing affected homes close to train tracks and homes in greater distance...

Exploiting exogenous variation in retail fuel prices from a temporary fuel tax discount in Germany, we estimate how the pass-through of the discount varies over space and time. We draw on daily gasoline prices of virtually all gas stations in Germany and neighboring France, with France serving...

In 2017, the German federal government passed the Railroad Noise Protection Act to reduce the noise emitted by freight trains. This paper evaluates the effects of this law on house prices by using regional variation comparing affected homes close to train tracks and homes in greater distance...

To evaluate the causal impact of noise exposure on housing prices, we exploit a sudden and massive reduction in flight traffic that occurred with the onset of the Covid-19 measures in Germany. Comparing locations differently exposed to pre-pandemic noise with a differencein-difference approach,...

Existing nationwide population projections focus on highly aggregated spatial units. The most disaggregated nationwide study is provided by the German Federal Institute for Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Research (BBSR) and forecasts population at the county level until 2040 (BBSR, 2021)....