Real estate prices are central to a range of themes that are, e.g., relevant for monetary policy, community development, environmental valuation, and economic planning more generally. This paper developes a real estate index based on apartment offer prices on the post code level for Germany,...

This paper deals with the question of whether migrants in Germany pay a rent premium for apartments of comparable quality and neighborhood characteristics. We use a twostep selection-correction model augmented by a control function to account for nonrandom neighborhood choice. The estimation...

Die Untersuchung geht den räumlichen Unterschieden im Aufkommen von Kreditausfallrisiken der Privathaushalte in deutschen Ballungsräumen nach. Zahlungsschwierigkeiten sind eine gravierende Auswirkung persönlicher Fehlentscheidungen und können auf mangelnde finanzielle Grundkompe-tenzen...

The transformation of economy and society requires far-reaching technological and social innovations. To utilise the economic opportunities of transformation and to mitigate the negative effects of structural change, a determined transformation-oriented R&I policy is needed. Using the example of...