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Is the rent too high? : land ownership and monopoly power

Watson, C. Luke; Ziv, Oren - 2021

correlated with a 1% increase in rent. Market power is substantial: on average, markups account for nearly a third of rents in …

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Micro-geographic property price and rent indices

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Heblich, Stephan; Seidel, Tobias - 2021

the density bias of price-to-rent ratios in levels and trends, within and between cities. Our method lends itself to the … creation of comparable neighborhood-level qualiﬁed rent indices (Mietspiegel) across Germany. …

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Radio and the rise of the Nazis in prewar Germany

Adena, Maja; Enikolopov, Ruben; Petrova, Maria; … - 2015

How do the media affect public support for democratic institutions in a fragile democracy? What role do they play in a dictatorial regime? We study these questions in the context of Germany of the 1920s and 1930s. During the democratic period, when the Weimar government introduced pro-government...

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Geographical origins and economic consequences of language structures

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2016

This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...

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The agricultural origins of time preference

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - 2015

This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically that geographical variations in the natural return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on the distribution of time preference...

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Climatic roots of loss aversion

Galor, Oded; Savitskiy, Viacheslav - 2018

This research explores the origins of loss aversion and the variation in its prevalence across regions, nations and ethnic group. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the evolution of loss aversion in the course of human history can be traced to the adaptation of...

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Household expenditures, wages, rents

Davis, Morris A. (contributor); … - 2007

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Tenancy rent control and credible commitment in maintenance

Arnott, Richard; Shevyakhova, Elizaveta - 2014

Under tenancy rent control, rents are regulated within a tenancy but not between tenancies. This paper investigates the … effects of tenancy rent control on housing quality and maintenance. Since the discounted revenue received over a fixed …-duration tenancy depends only on the starting rent, intuitively the landlord has an incentive to spruce up the unit between tenancies …

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The economic value of cultural diversity : Evidence from US Cities

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni - 2004

the joint results from the wage and rent regressions are consistent with a dominant production amenity effect of cultural …

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Airbnb and rental markets : evidence from Berlin

Duso, Tomaso; Michelsen, Claus; Schäfer, Maximilian; … - 2021

high-availability Airbnb listing crowds out 0.6 long-term rentals and, consequently, increases the asked square-meter rent …, these district experienced a larger slowdown in rent increases following the reform due to larger reductions in Airbnb …

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