This Working Paper studies ways to stimulate the private rental sector (PRS) of the housing market – and compares experiences with policies and reforms in Germany, the Netherlands, Finland and the Czech Republic. Although in many countries the PRS has decreased in importance since the Second...

Title Page -- Contents -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Meaning of 'transition' -- The goal of the book -- Preliminary questions -- Theoretical and methodological framework -- Theories on housing systems' development -- Inspiration in comparative housing studies -- What...

Mass privatization offers a particularly suitable framework to study the change in ownership concentration as the extent of change is unusual for a stable market economy. Focusing on two different mass privatization schemes in two transition economies, Poland and the Czech Republic, we find that...