Compared to other European countries, housing policy in Germany has been favourable towards private rented housing. As a result, the private rented housing sector in Germany is large according to international standards. It appears to be 'healthy' in terms of housing quality and social profile...

...The first section takes a brief look at the history of rent controls. Initially mostmeasures were aimed at preventing landlords from reaping what was perceived tobe a ‘windfall profit’ resulting from some sort of unexpected emergency. It alsodemonstrates the diversity of rent control...

Living standard indicators are complex nonlinear statistics based on fundamen-tal components (income or consumption data, prices, household characteristics andenvironment). The statistical distributions of these components, which are oftenincompletely obseved, are central to study utilitarian...

This paper presents an analysis of housing conditions amongst the British urban workingclass in 1904, using a re-discovered survey.1 We investigate overcrowding and we find majorregional differences...

This paper proposes a model of urban agglomeration in conjunction withimperfect competition and endogenous product R&D of firms. The qualityof differentiated manufacturing goods is a result of R&D services providedby research firms. Sectoral interactions are subject to spatially...

This report contains key points from presentations and discussions at a round table meetingheld at the London School of Economics on Monday 24th July 2000. This meeting wasorganized by CASE and the University of Bristol to give an opportunity for housing financeacademics to discuss with...

Mitten in der Großen Weltwirtschaftskrise schrieb der englische Ökonom John Maynard Keynes 1930 einen kleinen Aufsatz: "Die wirtschaftlichen Chancen unserer Enkel". Der herrschende Pessimismus, so beginnt Keynes, sei eine "wahnwitzig falsche Interpretation" dessen, was unter der Ober-fläche...

Since the beginning of the nineties microfinance institutions were set up in Madagascar. The research project carried out on the east coast of the island was investigating the Caisse Féminine, that is women´s savings and credit co-operative, which is accompanied by the program "Credit with...