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We use a quantitative spatial equilibrium model to evaluate the distributional and welfare impacts of a recent temporary rent control policy in Berlin, Germany. We calibrate the model to key features of Berlin’s housing market, in particular the recent gentrification of inner city locations....
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Housing cooperatives have a significant share in some countries, particularly in urban housing markets, and are supported by municipalities through tax breaks and preferential access to land. We examine the contribution of housing cooperatives to the provision of affordable housing and how they...
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This paper analyzes the relative merits of large place- and tenant-based housing programs in Finland in terms of housing affordability and neighborhood quality. Using hedonic regression methods and household micro data, we find that rent savings to public housing tenants are less targeted...
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The homeownership rate in Germany is one of the lowest among advanced economies. To better understand this fact, we analyze the role of three specific policies which discourage homeownership in Germany: an extensive social housing sector with broad eligibility criteria, high transfer taxes when...
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With regard to the recent US house price cycle, we analyze how the interaction between housing supply restrictions … Statistical Areas, we estimate a simultaneous boom-bust system for house prices, housing supply and subprime lending. The model … accounts for regional differences in supply elasticities that are determined by local variations in topographical and …
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We analyze the demand and supply characteristics of the Indian telecommunications market, in order to assess the … potential effectiveness of universal access policies in developing countries. We provide some empirical evidence on the supply … and demand characteristics, using a small time-series-cross-section dataset on Indian States. We suggest that the price …
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This paper examines the advantages and drawbacks of alternative methods of estimating oil supply and oil demand … conclusion that the one-month oil supply elasticity is close to zero, which implies that oil demand shocks are the dominant …
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mainly the imposition of a highly unrealistic prior for the global impact price elasticity of oil supply. Once identification … uncertainty about the global price elasticity of oil supply is accounted for by specifying a prior more in line with extraneous …
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and demand. Supply disruptions turn out to be a bigger factor in historical oil price movements and inventory accumulation … uncertainty about the identifying assumptions themselves. We use this approach to revisit the importance of shocks to oil supply … a smaller factor than implied by earlier estimates. Supply shocks lead to a reduction in global economic activity after …
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Airbnb supply has a much larger impact on rents and long-term rental supply for the first reform. This is consistent with more … supply. …
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