Rising rents in German cities have led to an intense debate about the need for tighter rent controls in housing markets … makers, the rental brake has, at best, no impact in the short run. At worst, it even accelerates rent increases both in …

The paper aims at measuring the rental housing market regulations in Germany between 1913 and 2015. Four classes of … housing policy are considered: Rent controls, tenant protection, rationing of housing, and fostering of social housing. Based … of regulations in Germany related to the growing housing scarcity in large cities due to intra- and international …

Russian Empire, for the first time in its history saw the introduction of rent controls and protection of tenants from …

-term tenants have to pay a lower real valued rent than short-term tenants. Our empirical analysis exploits data from the German … conditional rent distribution. …

Rising rents in German cities have led to an intense debate about the need for tighter rent controls in housing markets … makers, the rental brake has, at best, no impact in the short run. At worst, it even accelerates rent increases both in …

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 …

The paper aims at measuring the rental housing market regulations in Germany between 1913 and 2015. Four classes of … housing policy are considered: Rent controls, tenant protection, rationing of housing, and fostering of social housing. Based … of regulations in Germany related to the growing housing scarcity in large cities due to intra- and international …