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Tacit Collusion in the Santiago Housing Market

Lefort, Fernando; Vargas, Miguel - 2011

Given the numerous and widely acknowledged benefits of a well-functioning housing market, it is vital to understand the degree of competition in that market, which is the starting point for undertaking any policy tool aimed at improving its efficiency. This paper tests the extent of competition...

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Spatial Lock-in: Do Falling House Prices Constrain Residential Mobility?

Chan, Sewin - 1998

Falling house prices have caused numerous home owners to suffer capital losses. Those with little home equity may be prevented from moving because proceeds from the sale of their house are insufficient to repay their mortgage and provide a new down payment. A data set of mortgages is used to...

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Distributional price effects of rent controls in Berlin: When expectation meets reality

Thomschke, Lorenz - 2016

An enormous increase of initial rents in many German cities over the last decade has prompted the current grand coalition to implement a new rent control called "Mietpreisbremse" in 2015 (literally a brake on rental prices). This reform aims to stop exploding rents and to provide particularly...

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Housing markets and housing policies in India

Tiwari, Piyush; Rao, Jyoti - 2016

Issues of housing in India are synonymous with ignorance of housing in active government involvement at the policy and program formulation levels. They are also due to the problems that unplanned urbanization, income disparity, poverty, illiteracy, and unemployment brought. These issues...

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The clash of rural-urban migrants and real estate investors on Phnom Penh's housing market: Prospects for garment workers

Buttmann, Vera - 2017

resulting mismatch of housing demand and supply increases segregation, marginalises the vulnerable and leads to massive urban …

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The 2015 European Refugee Crisis and Residential Housing Rents in Germany

Kürschner Rauck, Kathleen; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2018

We study the impact of the 2015 mass arrival of refugees to Germany on residential housing rents. Using unique data on end of year county-level refugee populations and data on monthly offers of flats for rent from Germanyâ€™s leading online property broker Immobilienscout24, we find strong...

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Sorting in an urban housing market - is there a response to demographic change?

Neumann, Uwe; Taruttis, Lisa - 2018

case study we analyse whether and to what extent rents, housing prices and segregation dynamics corresponded with … segregation was on the rise and, according to a hedonic analysis, prices for apartments were higher in districts with a … Nachbarschaften mit alternder Bevölkerung eingetreten ist. Die demographische Segregation nahm jedoch im Untersuchungszeitraum zu und …

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Effects of Housing Transfer Taxes on Household Mobility

Eerola, Essi; Harjunen, Oskari; Lyytikäinen, Teemu; … - 2019

Housing transfer taxes are fiscally important in many countries despite evidence of substantial welfare losses found in several quasi-experimental studies. Research designs used in this prior literature are prone to attenuation bias due to spillovers from mobility or trading across control and...

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The effect of new market-rate housing construction on the low-income housing market

Mast, Evan - 2019

Increasing supply is frequently proposed as a solution to rising housing costs. However, there is little evidence on how new market-rate construction-which is typically expensive-affects the market for lower quality housing in the short run. I begin by using address history data to identify...

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Rental prices in Germany: A comparison between migrants and natives

Eilers, Lea; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; Vance, Colin - 2017

This paper deals with the question of whether migrants in Germany pay a rent premium for apartments of comparable quality and neighborhood characteristics. We use a twostep selection-correction model augmented by a control function to account for nonrandom neighborhood choice. The estimation...

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