We study the effects of time-using rent-seeking activities on the macroeconomic allocation and the economic growth rate … useless) rent-seeking ability. In the benchmark model each agent decides during youth on how much time to spend on lobbying … ensures that the model features endogenous growth. The rewards to rent-seeking accrue during youth and part of the additional …

In 2020, Berlin introduced a rigorous rent-control policy responding to soaring rents by setting a cap on rental prices …: the Mietendeckel (rent freeze). The policy was revoked one year later by the German Constitutional Court. Although … clear. In this paper we evaluate the short-term causal effect of the rent freeze on the supply-side of the market, both in …