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 …

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 …

makers and general public typically are supporting it. As a result, in many European countries, since World War I the rent … government rental market regulations on real house prices, price-to-rent, and price- to-income ratios, real rents, and new … housing construction in Germany in 1950_2015. The regulations are measured by the indices developed by the authors based on a …

, we mimic the informal Swedish swap market, which is characterized by strong rent control and dominant ownership of the … apartment rent value increases …