We use employment data for 2008-12 to analyse the impact of the subprime and Eurozone crises on the British and German financial sector. In the UK the sector contracted and its spatial concentration increased across regions and urban hierarchy, with London as the sole winner. In Germany there...

The BioRegio contest and the BioProfile contest initiated by the German Federal Government have drawn much international attention as prototypes of a new kind of technology policy aiming at the exploitation of regional innovation and growth potential through clustering. There is, however, little...

The World War I played a key role in shaping modern housing policy. While in the pre-War time virtually no housing policy existed, the beginning of hostilities led to an almost immediate and comprehensive state intervention in the housing market, particularly among those engaged in the war....

Die Mietpreisbremse ist das zentrale wohnungsmarktpolitische Projekt der vergangenen Jahre. Umso größer war die Ernüchterung, als erste empirische Studien - auch des DIW Berlin - darauf hindeuteten, dass die Mietpreisbremse den Anstieg der Mieten insgesamt nicht spürbar verlangsamt. Dieses...

Deutschlands Wohneigentumsquote ist im internationalen Vergleich niedrig - nicht einmal die Hälfte aller Haushalte lebt in den eigenen vier Wänden. Gerade Haushalte mit geringeren Einkommen bilden selten Immobilienvermögen, obwohl es seit rund 60 Jahren Sparprämien gibt, die an diese Gruppen...

Am 1. Juni 2016 ist die viel diskutierte Mietpreisbremse ein Jahr in Kraft. Seither wurde sie in 308 Städten eingeführt. Die im Vorfeld geäußerten Befürchtungen, die dringend benötigte Bautätigkeit würde damit massiv ausgebremst, haben sich ebenso wenig bewahrheitet wie die Hoffnungen,...

The World War I played a key role in shaping modern housing policy. While in the pre-War time virtually no housing policy existed, the beginning of hostilities led to an almost immediate and comprehensive state intervention in the housing market, particularly among those engaged in the war....

Despite rather skeptical attitude of the economists toward the state intervention in the housing markets, the policy makers and general public typically are supporting it. As a result, in many European countries, since World War I the rent and eviction controls as well as social housing policies...

Using a rich dataset of territories and cities of the Holy Roman Empire in the 16th century, this paper investigates the determinants of adoption and diffusion of Protestantism as a state religion. A territorys distance to Wittenberg, the city where Martin Luther taught, is a major determinant...

Using a rich dataset of territories and cities of the Holy Roman Empire in the 16th century, this paper investigates the determinants of adoption and diffusion of Protestantism as a state religion. A territory’s distance to Wittenberg, the city where Martin Luther taught, is a major...