After two years of significant price declines, the German real, estate market is showing signs of slight stabilization. Once, again, building plots and single-family homes have become, slightly cheaper – nominally by one percent compared to, 2024. In 2024, the declines were four and seven percent, respectively. Prices for row houses and apartments, on the other hand, rose slightly by 0.5 percent. Price ...
German economy in the starting blocks—global economy holds its own German Economy Global Economy Links und Downloads The German economy has stabilized in the current year and is looking ahead to a fiscal policysupported upturn starting next year High public investment and strong government consumption are key factors—structural problems of the German economy likely to remain unresolved for the ...
On November 17 and 18, 2025 we are organizing a two-day in-person workshop on the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at DIW Berlin. In addition to presentations on the study itself, its data structure, sampling design, and weighting strategy, hands-on sessions will offer a practical approach to the data and its potential. The workshop is aimed at researchers of all qualification levels who want to work ...
The MINDSET_Clean_H2 research project aims to develop innovative open-source models that align the uptake of hydrogen (H2) in the EU with developments in international markets. By combining game-theoretic analyses with numerical modelling and machine learning methods, a set of instruments is developed that can also be used in the face of changing regulation and market developments. The aim is to...
We study how rent control and housing rationing shape housing investment and market tightness in Geneva using a VAR on annual data (1994–2022) with generalized impulse responses and Granger causality. We find that housing rationing functions as a binding quantity restriction as it precedes a contraction in new institutional construction and Granger-causes lower vacancy rates. This increased scarcity ...
The 16th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference (SOEP2026) will be held in Berlin from July 8 to 9, 2026 at the Quadriga Campus. The conference provides researchers who use the SOEP with the opportunity to present and discuss their work with their peers. This includes users of the SOEP part of the Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF), LIS/LWS data, and SOEP-IS, as well as...
