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. …

canton of Zurich of 2009 serves as a natural experiment for testing the instrumental versus expressive voter hypotheses. We …

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

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 …

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

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 …

temporary rent control policy in Berlin, Germany. We calibrate the model to key features of Berlin’s housing market, in … renter households lose. Our counterfactual analysis mimicks the rent control policy. We find that this policy reduces welfare …