Market Break or Simply Fake? Empirics on the Causal Effects of Rent Controls in Germany
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Keywords
Housing policy; rental housing; Germany; rent controls; rental brake;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- K23 - Law and Economics - - Regulation and Business Law - - - Regulated Industries and Administrative Law
- N9 - Economic History - - Regional and Urban History
- R30 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EUR-2016-06-18 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-LAW-2016-06-18 (Law and Economics)
- NEP-URE-2016-06-18 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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