The (re-)introduction of rent regulation in the form of rent controls, tenant protection or supply rationing is back on … the agenda of policymakers in light of rent inflation in many global cities. While rent control as social policy promises … on both rent regulation and housing construction for 16 developed countries (1910-2017) and 44 developing countries since …

, we mimic the informal Swedish swap market, which is characterized by strong rent control and dominant ownership of the … apartment rent value increases …

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 …