This paper tests the hypothesis that an increase in the supply of public housing causes a substantially offsetting decline in the quantity supplied of competing private units. The statistical results offer little by way of confirmation of this view.A comparative statics model of the rental...

This paper estimates the burden of lost producer surplus imposed on landlords by rent control. The approach employed measures the reduction in Marshallian quasi-rent from the side of the derived demand for factors rather than the short-run supply of housing.A constant elasticity of substitution...