demand, or pandemics cutting incomes. In response, the authorities implement rent control that slows rent increases or even … freezes rents. Rent control is ubiquitous, widely used at a large scale since World War I. However, its roots lie in a far …. Rapidly rising property prices, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Ukrainian war pushed rent control back to the top of the …

We empirically document that the effectiveness of the German rent control introduced in 2015 in achieving rental … generated by the design of the rent control we identify a causal negative effect of the rent control on the yield of rental … housing affordability is limited. Exploring the reasons for this limited effectiveness we focus on the impact of the rent …

control policies. Highlighting undesirable price and supply effects lowers respondents' agreement with rent control, while …We conduct a survey experiment among 18,000 respondents in Germany to examine the determinants of support for rent …

This study investigates the effects of short-lived rent control regulations introduced in Catalonia in September 2020 … examine separately the rental and sales markets. We find that the introduction of rent control led to a reduction in rents in … of dwellings remained unchanged, whereas their supply increased substantially. The revocation of rent control caused a …

Rent control is a highly debated social policy that has been omnipresent since World War I. Since the 2010s, it is … solution, directing their attention to controling housing rents and other restrictive policies. Is rent control useful or does … it create more damage than utility? To answer this question, we need to identify the effects of rent control. This study …