The paper aims at measuring the rental housing market regulations in Germany between 1913 and 2015. Four classes of … housing policy are considered: Rent controls, tenant protection, rationing of housing, and fostering of social housing. Based … of regulations in Germany related to the growing housing scarcity in large cities due to intra- and international …

This paper empirically analyzes the effects of a second generation rent control. We make use of an uncommon policy … with elements of a discontinuity design, to identify the causal impact of rent controls. We exploit the spatial and … prices. Our results suggest that the regulation benefits low/medium income households. Further, we provide evidence that rent …

-country comparison. Such a comparison shows that Germany-compared to the rest of Europe-has relatively intense rent control which has …Residential rental markets regulations have become an integral part of everyday life in Germany as in almost all other … countries. The strong house price and rent increases over the past decade have fueled social debate on this issue. Tenant …

getan werden, damit Wohnen endlich wieder bezahlbar wird? Caren Lay nimmt die deutsche Wohnungspolitik der letzten 20 Jahre … schonungslos unter die Lupe, zeigt auf, wie und warum Deutschland zum Eldorado für Wohnungsspekulation werde konnte, und liefert … provokante Ideen für eine soziale Wohnungspolitik, die wir so dringend brauchen. (Verlagswerbung) …

temporary rent control policy in Berlin, Germany. We calibrate the model to key features of Berlin’s housing market, in … renter households lose. Our counterfactual analysis mimicks the rent control policy. We find that this policy reduces welfare …

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 …