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German Real Estate Price Index (GREIX)

High rents, gentrification and lack of housing construction: affordable housing has been scarce in Germany for years. The COVID-19 pandemic, historically high inflation and rising interest rates are increasing fear of a growing housing crisis. From mid-2022, real estate prices collapsed by up to 20 per cent when adjusted for inflation. How did it get this far? How have real estate prices in Germany developed over the past 60 years? And what conclusions can be drawn for the future? The German Real Estate Price Index (GREIX), developed by economists from the Department of Economics of the University of Bonn, provides answers and establishes novel standards for the analysis of German real estate markets based on cutting-edge data.

How Germany made it through winter without Russian gas

The German economy has coped with the end of Russian gas supplies and would have also been able to withstand an import stop from April 2022. This is the result of an analysis of a team around Prof. Dr. Moritz Schularick, member of the Department of Economics and designated President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, joint with Prof. Dr. Benjamin Moll (London School of Economics), and Dr. Georg Zachmann (Bruegel). The study has been published as “ECONtribute Policy Brief”.

VWL-Studium von Studierenden bewertet

Im diesjährigen CHE-Ranking des Centrum für Hochschulentwicklung schneidet die VWL sehr gut ab. Sowohl im Bereich der faktenbasierten Rankingergebnisse, als auch bei den Ergebnissen der Studierendenbefragung konnte der Fachbereich viele positive Bewertungen erhalten.

Dies Academicus: Nachhaltigkeit in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Nachhaltigkeit und Wirtschaftswissenschaften – passt das zusammen? Sehr gut sogar! Konsumenten und Produzenten verbrauchen Energie, verursachen Verschmutzung. Preise auf Märkte bilden die gesellschaftlichen Kosten eine Produktes nur unzureichend ab. Andererseits können Märkte, beispielsweise für Emissionszertifikate, helfen, Verschmutzung zu vermeiden, oder die Kosten des Klimaschutzes zu reduzieren. Weitere Eingriffe können ebenfalls nachhaltigere Entscheidungsmuster fördern ohne ökonomischen Wohlstand substantiell zu gefährden.

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Coal, Consumption, and Climate Protection: New podcast season

Designing e-cars, preventing natural disasters or conserving biodiversity: The fight against climate change is subject to numerous fields of research. What contribution economics can provide in this context is revealed in the new climate season of the ECONtribute Wirtschaftspodcast – available now on all common podcast portals.