Fifty Shades of State: Quantifying Housing Market Regulations in Germany
Konstantin Kholodilin (renoloco@yandex.ru)
No 1530, Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin from DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research
Abstract:
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 on a thorough analysis of federal and regional legislation, for each class, an index is constructed, increasing in degree of regulation. The average of class-specific indices make up a composite index. The index reflects dramatic increases in regulations during and immediately after the World Wars. Likewise, the 2010s are characterized by a surge in virtually all classes of regulations in Germany related to the growing housing scarcity in large cities due to intra- and international migration leading to a geographical mismatch between housing supply and demand.
Keywords: Housing policy; rental housing; Germany; regulation index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K23 N9 R30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 59 p.
Date: 2015
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Working Paper: Fifty shades of state: Quantifying housing market regulations in Germany (2016)
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