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This chapter compares housing demand in the United States and in West Germany. Housing demand is viewed as a combined choice of tenure, structure type, and dwelling size. This comparison focuses on the importance of institutional pecularities as compared to behavorial ones: how much of the observed differences in housing consumption can be explained by differences in the tax laws, income distribution, or age structure, and how much has to be attributed to dissimilarities in tastes and preferences?
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Boersch-Supan, A. (1985). Tenure Choice and Housing Demand. In: Stahl, K., Struyk, R.J. (eds) U.S. and West German Housing Markets. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10649-5_3
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