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Explaining the Spatial Variation in Homeownership Rates: Results for German Regions

Lerbs, Oliver; Oberst, Christian - CESifo - 2011

homeownership rates. Among the explanatory variables, the analysis includes important regional housing market indicators as well as … homeownership rates vary so substantially across the country. The results indicate significant neighborhood effects for several …

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Explaining Spatial Variation in Homeownership Rates : Results for German Regions

Lerbs, Oliver; Oberst, Christian - 2021

A wide range of aggregate data is used to examine the spatial variation in homeownership rates among a cross-section of … spatial dependence in homeownership levels. In addition to familiar demographic and socioeconomic variables, the regional … disparities in homeownership rates between eastern and western Germany as well as between rural, urbanized and agglomerated …

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Income Taxes, Sorting, and the Costs of Housing: Evidence from Municipal Boundaries in Switzerland

Basten, Christoph; Ehrlich, Maximilian von; Lassmann, Andrea - CESifo - 2014

This paper provides novel evidence on the role of income taxes for residential rents and spatial sorting. Drawing on comprehensive apartment-level data, we identify the effects of tax differentials across municipal boundaries in Switzerland. The boundary discontinuity design (BDD) corrects for...

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Income Taxes, Sorting, and the Costs of Housing : Evidence from Municipal Boundaries in Switzerland

Basten, Christoph - 2014

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Do Land Use Policies Follow Road Construction

Garcia-López, Miquel-Àngel; Solé-Ollé, Albert; … - CESifo - 2014

We study whether local land use policies are modified in response to enhanced demand for building generated by a new highway, and examine the extent to which this effect of land use regulations affects building activity. We focus on the case of Spain during the last housing boom (1995-2007). We...

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Does Giving to Charity Lead to Better Health? Evidence from Tax Subsidies for Charitable Giving

Yörük, Baris K. - CESifo - 2014

In the United States, charitable contributions can be deducted from taxable income making the price of giving inversely related to the marginal tax rate. The existing literature documents that charitable giving is very responsive to tax subsidies, but often ignores the spillover effects of such...

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Homeownership and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Mortgage Debt and Commitment

Bracke, Philippe; Hilber, Christian; Silva, Olmo - CESifo - 2014

We study the link between homeownership, mortgage debt, and entrepreneurship using a model of occupational choice and …

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Low Homeownership in Germany - A Quantitative Exploration

Kaas, Leo - 2018

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 …

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Homeownership and Entrepreneurship : The Role of Mortgage Debt and Commitment

Bracke, Philippe - 2014

We study the link between homeownership, mortgage debt, and entrepreneurship using a model of occupational choice and …

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Home Ownership and Household Portfolio Choice

Michielsen, Thomas - 2016

We study the effect of home equity and indebtedness on financial portfolio choices of Dutch households during the period 2006-2012. Using a large administrative dataset at the household level we estimate how home equity and the outstanding mortgage amount influence the share of liquid assets...

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