shortages, Germany implemented a reform in 2001 to curtail rent increases. Based on linked housing-tenant data for Germany, this …Most countries show a residency discount in rents for sitting tenants. In the wake of strong rent increases and housing …

shortages, Germany implemented a reform in 2001 to curtail rent increases. Based on linked housing-tenant data for Germany, this …Most countries show a residency discount in rents for sitting tenants. In the wake of strong rent increases and housing …

We empirically document that the effectiveness of the German rent control introduced in 2015 in achieving rental … housing affordability is limited. Exploring the reasons for this limited effectiveness we focus on the impact of the rent … control on the yield on rental housing investments proxied by rent-price ratios which we derive by matching micro-level quotes …

prices on the post code level for Germany, taking into accout apartment heterogeneity and small sample sizes within regional …

assumptions about functional form. We find that rent for a typical housing unit at first falls rapidly with age, flattens, and … then begins to rise with age for older units. This nonmonotonic pattern is a feature of many other studies of both age-rent … eliminated when we attempt to control for major improvements by excluding housing units that see very large jumps in rent. Third …