In a given year, a resident of the United States is roughly twice more likely to move to a different home than is a resident of France (or of Western Europe as a whole). Cultural differences undoubtedly account for some of this gap. The central thesis of this article, however, is that much of...

Most economists believe that strict rent controls deter the production and maintenance of rental housing. In a Métropolitiques essay, Loïc Bonneval challenged this consensus. Bonneval claimed that France’s severe interwar rent controls had little effect on the profitability of real estate...