Following World War I, rent control became a standard policy response to the housing shortage and the resulting rent … rental market regulations (including rent control, protection of tenants from eviction, and housing rationing) had any …

This paper evaluates the rent control policy implemented in Germany in 2015. Like many countries around the world … contracts. To that end, the rent control was introduced. To evaluate the effectiveness of the rent control with respect to … variation since new and modernised objects are exempt from rent control. Based on data for rental offers in Germany, we apply a …

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 …

restrictive policies are considered: rent control, protection from restriction, and housing rationing. The database covers 47 …, the evolution of policies diverged: while rent control became more flexible or was phased out, tenure security stabilized … rent control, stronger tenure security, and more housing rationing. It mostly includes European continental countries …

We analyze the extent to which sales prices for residential housing react to rent-price regulation. To this end, we …

private tenancy legislation through the binary coding of rent control, the protection of tenants from eviction, and rental … rent control on the rise of homeownership as the dominant tenure during the 20th century. We find that both rent regulation …