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How does immigration affect housing costs in Switzerland?

Helfer, Fabienne; Grossmann, Volker; Osikominu, Aderonke - 2023

This paper examines the short-run immigration effects on prices for owner-occupied housing and rents in Switzerland, exploiting regional variation at the level of 106 local labour markets ("Mobilité Spatiale" regions) and 26 cantons, respectively. We propose two empirical strategies that...

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Monetary policy, property prices and rents : evidence from local housing markets

Groiss, Martin; Syrichas, Nicolas - 2025

on Germany-where half of households rent-we find that expansionary monetary policy significantly boosts property prices …-to-home moves, and renters make more rent-to-rent transitions. The results suggest that accommodative monetary policy can widen … price-to-rent ratios, fueling housing affordability pressures and potentially exacerbating the wealth gap between owners and …

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The Pass-Through of House Prices to Market Rents

Kohlscheen, Emanuel - 2022

House prices have risen rapidly in most advanced economies. This paper examines to which extent house prices have affected rental markets in 9 advanced economies. The analysis reveals that the short-term pass-through of house prices to rents is typically limited: ceteris paribus, a 10% increase...

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How does immigration affect housing costs in Switzerland?

Helfer, Fabienne; Grossmann, Volker; Osikominu, Aderonke - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 159 (2023) 1, pp. 1-31

This paper examines the short-run immigration effects on prices for owner-occupied housing and rents in Switzerland, exploiting regional variation at the level of 106 local labor markets ("Mobilité Spatiale" regions) and 26 cantons, respectively. We propose two empirical strategies that exploit...

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Investment incentives of rent controls and gentrification : evidence from German micro data

Baye, Vera; Dinger, Valeriya - 2023

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 …

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Predicting Returns and Rent Growth in the Housing Market Using the Rent-to-Price Ratio : Evidence from the OECD Countries

Engsted, Tom - 2015

We conduct a comprehensive international study of predictability in housing markets using the rent-price ratio as a …-premia, but we also document two puzzles. First, there is a highly unstable predictive pattern in rent growth across countries and …

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Heterogeneous trends in apartment rental prices

Metz-Peeters, Maike; Werenbeck-Ueding, Sven - 2025

We introduce a novel, non-parametric approach for estimating house price indices that capture heterogeneous price developments independently of strict functional form assumptions. Utilizing the potential outcomes framework, our approach employs causal forests to effectively address changes in...

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Micro-geographic property price and rent indices

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Heblich, Stephan; Seidel, Tobias - 2021

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Micro-geographic property price and rent indices

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Heblich, Stephan; Seidel, Tobias - 2021

the density bias of price-to-rent ratios in levels and trends, within and between cities. Our method lends itself to the … creation of comparable neighborhood-level qualiﬁed rent indices (Mietspiegel) across Germany. …

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Testing the Tiebout hypothesis in the US

Kim, Myeong-soo - In: The Korean economic review 14 (1998) 1, pp. 231-243

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