Housing markets are affected by a large variety of factors. Among them, governmental regulations play an important role. Besides desired effects, all these policies exert a number of side effects, some of which can even offset the desired effects. In addition, different policies can cancel out...

Die Erschwinglichkeit von Wohnraum ist ein zentrales Anliegen in der aktuellen politischen Debatte. Dabei gibt es Forderungen nach preisgünstigem Wohnraum aber auch solche nach direkter Unterstützung von einkommensschwachen Mietenden. Was ist letztlich effektiver? Der Verband Immobilien...

This paper asks whether, and under which circumstances, rent subsidies to low-income households increase rents. We utilize a reform in Finland that caused large quasi-random variation in housing allowances. We find that large increases in allowances for affected housing units had little or no...

Public subsidies to support the downpayments of mortgaged home purchasers can be absorbed in the housing market in a number of ways. Using granular data on loans and borrowers in Ireland, we assess three possible transmission channels of an enhancement to subsidy payments introduced in mid-2020:...

This paper provides new evidence on the incidence and theoretical predictions of housing allowances. In general, the housing allowance algorithm is universal across countries in its structure and functional form i.e., benefit minus deduction. I estimate, using administrative data, the effects of...