markets. It covers such policies as rent control, protection from eviction, housing rationing, housing allowances, provision …

demand, or pandemics cutting incomes. In response, the authorities implement rent control that slows rent increases or even … freezes rents. Rent control is ubiquitous, widely used at a large scale since World War I. However, its roots lie in a far …. Rapidly rising property prices, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Ukrainian war pushed rent control back to the top of the …

cooperatives to the provision of affordable housing and how they are affected by rent control. For Germany, we find that residents … of cooperative housing pay lower rents than for-profit owners, but are still affected by rent control. In particular, we …

control policies. Highlighting undesirable price and supply effects lowers respondents' agreement with rent control, while …We conduct a survey experiment among 18,000 respondents in Germany to examine the determinants of support for rent …

We empirically document that the effectiveness of the German rent control introduced in 2015 in achieving rental … generated by the design of the rent control we identify a causal negative effect of the rent control on the yield of rental … housing affordability is limited. Exploring the reasons for this limited effectiveness we focus on the impact of the rent …