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The effectiveness of interventions to reduce informality in low- and middle income countries
Jessen, Jonas; Kluve, Jochen - 2019
interventions have therefore been implemented in many countries with the objective to increase the formalization of firms and … security contributions, and interventions that enforce labor or business formalization. In this paper, we compile a database of … 157 impact estimates from 32 academic studies that evaluate empirically one or more of these formalization interventions …
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Forecasting House Prices in Germany
Meulen, Philipp an de; Micheli, Martin; Schmidt, Torsten - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2011
In the academic debate there is a broad consensus that house price fluctuations have a substantial impact on financial stability and real economic activity. Therefore, it is important to have timely information on actual and expected house price developments. The aim of this paper is to measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009385735
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Distant Event, Local Effects? Fukushima and the German Housing Market
Bauer, Thomas K.; Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2013
The Fukushima Daiichi accident in Japan in March 2011 caused a fundamental change in Germany’s energy policy which led to the immediate shut down of nearly half of its nuclear power plants. This paper uses data from Germany’s largest internet platform for real estate to investigate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010691190
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Border Eff ects in House Prices
Micheli, Martin; Rouwendal, Jan; Dekkers, Jasper - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2014
We estimate the eff ect of the Dutch-German border on house prices. In the last 40 years the development of house prices in the Netherlands and Germany has been substantially different. While the Netherlands have been hit by two real estate cycles, prices in Germany have been extraordinary...
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Unawareness and selective disclosure: The effect of school quality information on property prices
Haisken-DeNew, John; Hasan, Syed; Jha, Nikhil; Sinning, … - 2017
The Australian Government launched the My School website in 2010 to provide standardised information about the quality of schools to the Australian public. This paper combines data from this website with home sales data for the state of Victoria to estimate the effect of the publication of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011590068
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Forecasting House Prices in Germany
an de Meulen, Philipp; Micheli, Martin; Schmidt, Torsten - 2011
In the academic debate there is a broad consensus that house price fluctuations have a substantial impact on financial stability and real economic activity. Therefore, it is important to have timely information on actual and expected house price developments. The aim of this paper is to measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287418
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Sorting in an urban housing market - is there a response to demographic change?
Neumann, Uwe; Taruttis, Lisa - 2018
In urban areas, there is considerable neighbourhood-level variation in population characteristics. Using Dortmund as a case study we analyse whether and to what extent rents, housing prices and segregation dynamics corresponded with demographic ageing in urban neighbourhoods between 2007 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984959
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Rent control and rental prices: High expectations, high effectiveness?
Breidenbach, Philipp; Eilers, Lea; Fries, Jan - 2019
This paper evaluates the rent control policy implemented in Germany in 2015. Like many countries around the world, German cities and metropolitan areas have experienced a strong increase in rental prices during the last decade. In response, the politicians aimed to dampen the rise in rental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012007669
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Distant Event, Local Effects? Fukushima and the German Housing Market
Bauer, Thomas K.; Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2013
The Fukushima Daiichi accident in Japan in March 2011 caused a fundamental change in Germany's energy policy which led to the immediate shut down of nearly half of its nuclear power plants. This paper uses data from Germany's largest internet platform for real estate to investigate the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318435
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Fundamental determinants of real estate prices: A panel study of German regions
Belke, Ansgar; Keil, Jonas - 2017
This paper aims at establishing empirical facts on the fundamental determinants of real estate prices. It contributes to the literature by analysing a unique panel dataset covering a wide range of real estate market data and other economic variables for nearly 100 German cities. Several robust...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011780630