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We exploit two policy interventions in Berlin, Germany, to causally identify the impact of Airbnb on rental markets. While the first intervention significantly reduced the number of high-availability Airbnb listings bookable for most of the year, the second intervention led to the exit of...
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Cities worldwide have regulated peer-to-peer short-term rental platforms claiming that those platforms remove apartments from the long-term housing market, causing an in- crease in rents. Establishing and quantifying such a causal link is, however, challenging. We investigate two policy changes...
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Niedrige Zinsen, ordentliche Einkommenssteigerungen und immer höhere Mieten, trotz Mietpreisbremse: Selten zuvor, könnte man meinen, hat es sich mehr gelohnt, eine Eigentumswohnung oder ein Eigenheim zu kaufen. Zahlreiche Berechnungen zeigen, dass es unter dem Strich günstiger wäre, als ein...
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The objective of this paper is to explain the mechanisms that have lead to the remarkable improvement of the East German Housing Market during transition after the political change in 1989 and the reunification of Germany in 1990. Theoretical analysis suggests, that housing policy of the former...
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Rising rents in German cities have led to an intense debate about the need for tighter rent controls in housing markets. In April 2015, the so-called rental brake was introduced, which imposes upper bounds for rents in new contracts, in order to immediately slow down the increase of rents in...
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In the light of the unconventional monetary policies conducted by the majority of large central banks around the world, there is an intense debate about their potential impact on the prices of capital assets. Particularly in Germany, skepticism about the sustainability of the recent policy by...
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Mit der Globalisierung ist über den Wettbewerb auf den Gütermärkten hinaus vor allem der Wettbewerb der Ordnungen deutlich fühlbarer geworden. In dieser „flachen Welt“ sind Staaten oder Staatenbünde aufgefordert, Rahmenbedingungen zu schaffen, die es den einzelnen Unternehmen...
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This paper studies market segmentation that arises from the introduction of a price ceiling in the market for rental housing. When part of the market faces rent control, theory predicts an increase of free-market rents, a consequence of misallocation of households to housing units. We study a...
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Viele Fragen rund um den Brexit sind weiterhin offen. Es kann nicht ausgeschlossen werden, dass sich Großbritannien und die Europäische Union nicht auf einen Austrittsvertrag einigen können. Dann könnte es zu einem sogenannten harten Brexit (No-Deal Brexit) kommen. Wir haben die...
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