Thema Regionalwirtschaft

House Price Expectations

This study examines short-, medium-, and long-run price expectations in housing markets. At the heart of our analysis is the combination of data from a tailored in-person household survey, past sale offerings, satellite imagery on developable land, and an information treatment (RCT). As novel finding, we show that price expectations show no evidence for momentum-effects in the long run. We also do ...

Born in the Land of Milk and Honey: Hometown Growth and Individual Wealth Accumulation

How does economic growth affect the distribution of wealth? Combining wealth records from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and local GDP growth across 401 German counties, this paper documents a sizable Hometown-Growth-Wealth Nexus. Using a standard OLG model to guide our estimation strategy, we nd that, because of hometown growth, a person born in flourishing Munich will have accumulated two to three ...

Working Memory and Fluid Intelligence Are Differentially Related to Categories of Urban Fabric in Older Adults: Results from the Berlin Aging Study

Urbanization is Globally increasing at a rapid rate but its consequences for mental health, including cognitivefunctioning, are not well understood. In particular, little is known about the effects of different morphologicalfeatures associated with urban development, such as variations in the densities of urban fabric (i.e., degrees ofground sealing). We investigated associations of episodic memory, ...

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Airbnb and Rental Markets: Evidence from Berlin

Forward to the Past: Short-Term Effects of the Rent Freeze in Berlin

In 2020, Berlin introduced a rigorous rent-control policy responding to soaring prices by capping rents: the Mietendeckel (rent freeze). The German Constitutional Court revoked the policy only one year later. Although successful in lowering rents during its duration, the consequences for Berlin’s rental market and close-by markets are per se not clear. This article evaluates the short-term causal supply-side ...

Wärmewende in Berlin: Wärmepumpen sichern Versorgung: Animierte Infografik

Schuld ist nicht die Regelwut allein

Zu viel Bürokratie kann Unternehmen die Luft zum Atmen nehmen. Wichtiger als die Zahl der Vorschriften ist aber die Qualität der Verwaltung. Behörden müssen der Versuchung widerstehen, bürokratische Schritte auf Unternehmen und Bürger abzuwälzen. Dieser Gastbeitrag von Alexander S. Kritikos erschien am 6. November 2023 in der FAZ. Die jedes Jahr pünktlich zum medialen Sommerloch auftauchende Forderung ...

Verwaltungsqualität bremst Wachstum von Unternehmen eher aus als Regulierungsdichte

DIW-Bericht auf Basis von OECD-, WEF- und Eurostat-Daten untersucht, wie die Qualität regionaler Verwaltungen den Zusammenhang zwischen Regulierungsdichte eines Landes und Unternehmensentwicklung beeinflussen – In EU-Regionen mit sehr guter Verwaltung entwickeln sich schnell wachsende Unternehmen trotz hoher Regulierungsdichte positiv – Ineffiziente Verwaltungen hingegen verschärfen negative Auswirkungen ...

Social Policy or Crowding-out? Tenant Protection in Comparative Long-run Perspective

Private rental markets have become increasingly important since the Global Financial Crisis 2008–2009 and rent controls are back on the political agenda. Yet, they have received less attention from housing scholars than homeownership and public housing. This paper presents new data on the development of private tenancy legislation based on a content-coding of rent control, protection of tenants from ...