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 …

housing. When part of the market faces rent control, theory predicts an increase of free-market rents, a consequence of … introduction of rent control. Further, we document that rent control reduced the propensity to move house within rent controlled …

housing. When part of the market faces rent control, theory predicts an increase of free-market rents, a consequence of … introduction of rent control. Further, we document that rent control reduced the propensity to move house within rent controlled …

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 …

coalition to implement a new rent control called "Mietpreisbremse" in 2015 (literally a brake on rental prices). This reform … always uphold the rent paid by previous tenant. I apply a classical difference-in-difference strategy and a new changes …

We conduct a representative survey experiment in Germany to understand why people support inefficient policies. In … particular, we measure beliefs about and preferences for rent control - a policy that is widely regarded as harmful by experts … effects of rent control on rent prices and housing supply and with information about the consensus among economists against …