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we use together with geo-coded addresses and detailed structural characteristics to construct a quality-adjusted rent … housing market. In 1915, one of the world's earliest rent control and tenant protection policies was introduced in response to … official compliance with the policy, document a rise in tenure duration and strongly increased rent affordability among workers …
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-Soviet market data index for any Russian city. In 1915, a rent control and tenant protection policy was introduced in response to … affordability for workers. While the immediate prelude to the October Revolution was indeed characterized by economic turmoil, rent …
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In 2020, Berlin introduced a rigorous rent-control policy responding to soaring rents by setting a cap on rental prices …: the Mietendeckel (rent freeze). The policy was revoked one year later by the German Constitutional Court. Although … clear. In this paper we evaluate the short-term causal effect of the rent freeze on the supply-side of the market, both in …
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In 2020, Berlin enacted a rigorous rent-control policy: the 'Mietendeckel' (rent freeze), aiming to stop rapidly …-side effects. Using a rich pool of rent advertisements reporting asking rents and comprehensive dwelling characteristics, we …
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The political unification of Italy in 1861 led to the establishment of a single market, by removing the trade barriers across the pre-existing states, with a single currency. Market integration was the economic outcome of this process. At the same time, the Kingdom of Italy started a large...
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Italy has been characterized, throughout its history as a unified country, by large regional differentials in the levels of income, industrialization and socio-economic development. This paper aims at testing the New Economic Geography hypothesis on the role of market access in explaining these...
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This study empirically establishes a link between medieval trade, agglomeration and contemporary regional development in ten European countries. It documents a statistically and economically significant positive relationship between prominent involvement in medieval trade and commercial...
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This paper empirically tests the hypothesis that landed elites may block technological change and economic development if they fear that they will lose future political power (Acemoglu and Robinson (2002, 2006, and 2012). It exploits a plausible exogenous change in the distribution of political...
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In this paper we analyse the economic effects of railway infrastructure at the national level for European countries as well as at the local level for Southeast European cities based on a novel railway database capturing decades of the 19th century up to the early 21th century. A panel fixed...
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and extortion. Furthermore, the North Caucasus is one of Russia's poorest and least developed regions. Although the role …
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